# Presentation: 224740

## US REPATRIATION PROGRAM

- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
- HUMAN SERVICES
- 5/15/08

- Emergencies

- Evacuations

- Assistance

- Reception

## ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

**U.S. Department of Health and Human Services**
**(Secretary Michael Leavitt)**

**Administration for Children and Families**
**(Acting Assistant Secretary Daniel Schneider)**

**Office of Refugee Resettlement**
**(David Siegel, Acting Director)**

**ORGANIZATIONAL CHART**

**US Repatriation Program**
**(Elizabeth Russell, Coordinator)**

## US REPATRIATION PROGRAMORIGINS

- The U.S. Repatriation Program was established in 1935 under Section 1113 of the Social Security Act. to provide temporary assistance to U.S. citizens and their dependents who have been identified by the Department of State (DOS) as having returned, or been brought from a foreign country to the U.S. because of destitution, illness, war, threat of war, or a similar crisis. All temporary assistance provided under the Program and allocable to individual recipients is repayable to the Federal Government.

## TODAYS’ REPATRIATES

- The repatriates of today who require
- transitional/temporary assistance
- from HHS are not merely waiting for
- a transfer of funds to access their
- financial resources; instead, they
- are often totally rebuilding their
- lives.

## TODAYS’ REPATRIATES

- Cases include but are not limited to: unaccompanied minors, mentally ill cases, deported criminals, chronic physical illness, deceased individuals, among others

## REASON FOR REPATRIATION

- Medical Issues
- Psychiatric issues
- Financial issues
- Family Crisis
- Victim of crime
- Arrest
- War, civil unrest, natural disaster
- Other

## US REPATRIATION PROGRAM  FOUR MAJOR ACTIVITIES

- Individual Activity, 45 CFR 212
- Mentally Ill Activity, 45 CFR 211
- Group Activity, 42 USC Sec.1313 and EO 12656
- Emergency Activity 42 USC Sec. 1313 and EO 12656

## WHO IS ELIGIBILITY

**A) Individuals identified by the Department of State as having returned, or been brought, from a foreign country to the United States because of the destitution of the citizen of the United States or the illness of such citizen or any of his dependents or because of war, threat of war, invasion, or similar crisis,  and**
**	****(B) are without available resources. **

## US REPATRIATION PROGRAM AND PROCESSING OF CASES

- DOS REFERS CASES TO HHS
- HHS IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COORDINATION AND PROVISION OF SERVICES WITHIN THE US
- HHS GRANTEE, INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SERVIES-USA BRANCH, ASSISTS IN THE COORDINATION OF SERVICES
- STATE COORDINATORS PROVIDE SERVICES TO REPATRIATES.  THESE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE TO ESTABLISHED HHS PROCEDURES

## US REPATRIATION PROGRAM AND PROCESSING OF CASES

- ONCE A CASE IS CLOSED, STATES SHALL ADVISE ISS IN WRITING.
- ONCE A CASE IS CLOSED, ISS WILL PROVIDE THE INFORMATION TO HHS PROGRAM SUPPORT CENTER TO BEGIN COLLECTION OF THE DEBT.  STATES ARE NOT INVOLVED IN THIS PROCESS.

## FINACE

- ORR REIMBURSES STATES FOR ALL ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE COSTS ASSOCIATED TO THE PROVISION OF TEMPORARY SERVICES TO ELEGIBLE REPATRIATE.
- SERVICES SHALL BE REASONABLE AND ALLOWABLE.

## REQUEST FOR WAIVERS

- 	Request for waivers are in writing and should be sent to ISS for processing.  ORR makes the final determination regarding waivers.

## COLABORATIVE  EFFORTS

**COLABORATIVE  EFFORTS**
**AMONG DIFFERENT**
**AGENCIES**