Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 67 - SOCIAL SERVICES › Part V - Child Welfare › Subpart 2 - Community Services › Chapter 7 - Social Services Block Grant › Section V-707 - Eligibility

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Certain
				  individuals and categories of individuals may be eligible for services
				  according to federal regulations. These are:
1. individuals, without regard to income, who
				  are in need of adoption, child protection investigations, family services
				  and/or foster care/residential habilitation services;
2. individuals without regard to income who
				  are recipients of Title IVE Adoption Assistance as amended by U.S. Public Law
				  96-272 including adoption assistance recipients who relocate to Louisiana from
				  another state that is signatory to the Interstate Compact on Adoption and
				  Medical Assistance;
3. individuals
				  without regard to income who are currently certified as classmembers in the
				  federal class action judgement "Gary W. et al v. State of Louisiana et al,"
				  United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Civil Action No.
				  74-2412, who are in need of any service (including children's day care)
				  provided under the Intended Use Report;
4. recipients of Aid to Families with
				  Dependent Children (AFDC) and those persons whose needs were taken into account
				  in determining the needs of AFDC recipients;
5. recipients of Supplemental Security Income
				  payments, or state supplemental payments, and blind and disabled individuals
				  eligible for such payments except for their earned income;
6. families with gross incomes which do not
				  exceed 125 percent of the poverty level, as published yearly by the U.S.
				  Department of Health and Human Services in the
Federal
				  Register
.
Family
is defined as the basic family unit
				  consisting of one or more adults and children, if any, related by blood or law
				  and residing in the same household:
a. where
				  adults other than spouses reside together, each is considered a separate
				  family;
b. cohabitating non legal
				  spouses are considered separate families;
c. when children are present in the home with
				  non legal spouses, the parent who has primary responsibility for the care of
				  his/her natural children is considered as being in the same family unit with
				  the children;
d. emancipated
				  minors, foster children and children living under the care of individuals not
				  legally responsible for their care are considered one person
				  families.
7. Title XIX
				  (Medicaid) recipients and applicants for Title XIX (Medicaid) vendor payment
				  for skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility services, residing
				  within the state, are eligible for any appropriate service except day care for
				  children which requires applicants meet additional eligibility criteria which
				  are described in the final Intended Use Report;
8. residents of the Housing Authority of New
				  Orleans projects and related sites are group eligible for necessary and
				  available services with the exception of day care for children, which maintains
				  special eligibility criteria which are described in the final Intended Use
				  Report.