Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 18 - HUMAN SERVICES › Part 6 - Division of Family and Children's Services › Chapter 1 - DFCS Policy Manual › Section 18-6-1-E - Eligibility Foster Care Financial Assessment › Section 18-6-1-E-III - REIMBURSABILITY REQUIREMENTS

Current through June 25, 2024
A.
Placement
To be Title IV-E reimbursable, the child must be placed in
					 a licensed Resource Home or licensed child care institution.
1.
Resource Home
A Resource Home for children is one licensed by DFCS as
					 meeting the standards established for licensing. The term "Resource Home"
					 includes adoptive homes. (See Section F policy)
2.
Child Care Institution
A Child Care Institution is a child-caring institution,
					 either private or public, which accommodates no more than twenty-five (25)
					 children and is licensed by the State as meeting the standards established for
					 licensing.
In order for a child care institution to be eligible for
					 title IV-E funding, the licensing file for the institution must contain
					 documentation which verifies that safety considerations with respect to the
					 staff of the institution have been addressed. (
					 45
					 CFR 1356.30(f) )
3.
Adoptive Placement
An Adoptive Placement is an adoptive home that meets
					 licensure requirements which has been approved through the Adoption Unit of
					 DFCS.
4.
Non-Reimbursable Placements
Detention Facilities - detention facilities, forestry
					 camps, training schools, or any other facility operated primarily for the
					 detention of children who are determined to be delinquent are not considered
					 Title IV-E reimbursable.
The term shall not include detention facilities,
					 forestry camps, training schools, or any other facility operated primarily for
					 the detention of children who are determined to be delinquent. (
					 42 U.S.C.
					 672
§ 472 (c)(2))
Relatives - Foster board payments are not made to children
					 placed with relatives unless the relative becomes a licensed foster home.
A child may meet all of the Title IV-E eligibility
					 criteria at the time of removal except that s/he is not placed in one of the
					 reimbursable placements outlined in 1-3 above.
There is no time limitation on the child becoming Title
					 IV-E reimbursable if all factors, except placement, are met initially. If
					 later, the child enters an approved facility, thereby meeting all of the
					 factors, s/he should become Title IV-E reimbursable.
Administrative costs associated with an otherwise eligible
					 child who is in an unallowable facility or an unapproved or unlicensed relative
					 home, and who is removed in accordance with section 472(a) from the home of a
					 relative specified in section 406(a) (as in effect on July 16, 1996), shall be
					 considered only for expenditures:
(a)
				  for a period of not more than the lesser of 12 months or the average length of
				  time it takes for the State to license or approve a home as a foster home, in
				  which the child is in the home of a relative an application is pending for
				  licensing or approval of the home as a foster family home; or
(b) for a period of not more than 1 calendar
				  month when a child moves from a facility not eligible for payments under this
				  part into a foster family home or child care institution licensed or approved
				  by the State. (
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/cwpm/programs/cb/laws_policies/laws/cwpm/qaHistory.jsp?citID=36&id=794
)
				  (
See,
42 U.S.C. 6720 § 472(i)(1)(A) and 45 CFR
				  233.90(v)(c)(1))