Financial Responsibility for Foster Care Payment 623-05-15-30

(Revised 1/26/07 ML #3051)

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The county of financial responsibility may arrange with another county to perform certain activities such as provision of on-going services, and payment management. This will always be done through a written agreement, “Placement Agreement Between Counties,” which is negotiated between the involved counties and pertains to financial or service activities. This is a county form used whenever a child is placed by the financial county into family foster care in a different county. It is not used in therapeutic family foster care or group/RCCF/RTC/PRTF care.  

 

The “county having financial responsibility” means the county where the child’s parent has or had residence at the time of court intervention. The county of financial responsibility could change after a 60-day lapse in placement. If the parents do not have residence in North Dakota, then the financial responsibility exists in the county where the child resided at the time of court intervention.  

 

(Definition developed by County Directors, 1997).