Category 30 - Emergency Placements 623-05-30-15

(Revised 2/17/17 ML #3493)

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Foster children placed in a licensed or approved (Tribal Affidavit) family foster home may be eligible for emergency expenditures as a result of a crisis. The foster care case manager is responsible to identify the needs of the child and foster parents. Approval of the emergency rate must be made by the foster care case manager and provided to the eligibility worker for the file. The emergency rate is not an entitlement or a required supplement for initial placement into a family home.

 

Code under Category 30

31 – Emergency Foster Care Placement:

• This code is specific to and may only be applied when a child is initially placed in a licensed or approved (Tribal Affidavit) family foster home.
• The emergency payment will increase the daily foster care maintenance rate for a maximum of $35 per day to meet the additional extenuating expenditures as a result of the child’s emergency placement.

This irregular payment is automatically calculated by subtracting the age appropriate standard maintenance rate from $35.00. The difference will be paid as an irregular payment for no more than 15 days. If care extends for more than 15 days, the age appropriate standard maintenance rate will apply beginning with the 16th day of placement.

 

This irregular payment must be approved by the custodian in order for the financial county to authorize the payment. If a child within the first 15 days of placement is moved from one family foster home to another the irregular payment must be approved and can be paid if the emergency need has not been resolved and 15 days has not lapsed. If a child is on a trial home visit and is in need of emergency placement during that time, code 31 may be considered upon return to placement in a family foster home.