Interstate Compact Related to Children Receiving Foster Care Payments 623-05-15-35

(Revised 8/15/06 ML #3025)

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When a child is placed for foster care in another state the placement will be made through Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) and the child does not by such absence lose legal residence in North Dakota.  

 

If parents move from North Dakota, eligibility for foster care payment with respect to residence continues in North Dakota.

 

When North Dakota is the receiving state in an Interstate Compact placement and the child is placed in a licensed family foster home, the sending agency must reimburse the foster home at a rate consistent with North Dakota's foster care prevailing reimbursement rate.

 

North Dakota agencies placing (sending) a child in another state through Interstate Compact will reimburse the foster home in the receiving state at the receiving state's prevailing rate. ICPC approval is necessary prior to making any foster care payments.  Foster Care funds cannot be used to fund an illegal placement.