Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 474 - SOCIAL SERVICES FOR FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND YOUTH › Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS. › Section 474-1-008 - NEEDS ELIGIBILITY

Current through June 17, 2024
Social Services are authorized based on the applicant or recipient's
	 income eligibility and needs and are not provided based on demand. Need for a
	 particular service implies that the provision of that service will assist the
	 applicant, recipient or the family members toward achieving one of the
	 following five program goals in
	 42 U.S.C.
	 §
										1397:
(A) Achieving or maintaining economic
  self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency;
(B) Achieving or maintaining
  self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency;
(C) Preventing or remedying neglect, abuse,
  or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests,
  or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families;
(D) Preventing or reducing inappropriate
  institutional care by providing for community based care, home based care, or
  other forms of less intensive care; or
(E) Securing referral or admission for
  institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate.
008.01
ECONOMIC
  SELF-SUPPORT.
Economic self-support means that a recipient no
  longer receives any public assistance. Recipients working on this goal are in
  various levels of achievement or maintenance of economic self-support. Services
  available include homemaker and transportation services.
008.02
SELF
  SUFFICIENCY.
Recipients working on this goal must have realistic
  expectations of residing in their own homes or current living arrangements
  while receiving only limited services. Services available include homemaker and
  transportation services.
008.03
PREVENTING OR REMEDYING NEGLECT, ABUSE OR EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN
  AND REUNITING FAMILIES.
A family achieves this goal when the
  family no longer requires intervention or support to ensure against neglect,
  abuse or exploitation or when a family in a family in which these behavior have
  occurred no longer requires intervention or support to prevent recurrence.
  Services available include adoption services, including subsidized adoption,
  permanent planning services for children, homemaker, interstate placement,
  child protective services and transportation.
008.04
NEEDS
  CRITERIA.
An applicant or recipient has no defined service need
  when:
(A) The applicant or recipient is able
  to perform or provide for identified service needs;
(B) The applicant or recipient has household
  members or caretakers who have the responsibility or capability to meet
  identified service needs;
(C) The
  applicant or client has other relatives, friends, or interested individuals who
  will provide identified service needs at no cost to the applicant or
  recipient;
(D) The applicant or
  recipient has access to financial resources which may be used to meet the
  needs;
(E) The applicant or
  recipient is residing in an institution except in relation to
  deinstitutionalization and short-term care; or
(F) The applicant or recipient does not meet
  the requirements specified for each service.