“the applicant” means the applicant under section 26 of the Act;

“maintenance” includes aliment and any sums which are payable, following divorce, by one former spouse for the support of the other; and

“the United States of America” means the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and any other jurisdiction of the United States participating in Title IV-D of the Social Security Act (Title 42, United States Code, Chapter 7, subchapter IV, Part D).