Irregular Payment Specific to Placement Setting 623-05-25-05
(Revised 2/1/19 ML #3545)
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Irregular Payments Family Foster Care:
Foster children placed in a licensed or approved (Tribal Affidavit) family foster home are eligible for irregular maintenance payments.
Irregular Payments for a Non-Foster Care Placement:
Foster children placed in a non-foster care setting with an unlicensed provider, at the hospital, or in relative/kinship care do not qualify for irregular maintenance payments.
Irregular Payments in Other Approved Foster Care Settings:
- Intensive Therapeutic/Treatment Foster Care
- Code 53: Travel for foster parents to transport to school, and
- Code 71: If the foster child has their own child
- Therapeutic/Treatment Foster Care (TFC): Only 2 codes allowed.
- Code 53: Travel for foster parents to transport to school, and
- Code 71: If the foster child has their own child
- Step Down from TFC
- All irregular payments for family foster care placements, with the exception of Category 20 and Category 60. Initial clothing will not be required as a “step down” level of care will not occur during the child’s first five months of placement. Annual clothing allowance is offered by PATH to the foster child.
- All irregular payments for family foster care placements, with the exception of Category 20 and Category 60. Initial clothing will not be required as a “step down” level of care will not occur during the child’s first five months of placement. Annual clothing allowance is offered by PATH to the foster child.
- County Flow Through
- All irregular payments for family foster care placements apply.
- All irregular payments for family foster care placements apply.
- PATH Regular Foster Care
- All irregular payments for family foster care placements apply, with the exception of Categories 30 and 60.
Irregular Payments in Group & Residential Care:
The irregular payment policy has very limited application to children in group and residential care. An RCCF has an established daily rate; rate setting in those instances is dictated by N.D.A.C. 75-03-15 “Rate Setting”. Children placed in an RCCF are only eligible for:
- Category 10
- Category 20
- Category 50
- Category 80
Irregular Payments in PRTF's:
Foster care funds cannot pay for any portion of a child's cost of care in a PRTF, including irregular payments. Irregular payments may be included in the PRTF’s direct rate based on historical costs as outlined in N.D.A.C 75-02-09-06.
