Child Welfare Services Qualifications

 

DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES
Refugee Services Program

Unaccompanied Refugee Minors

RULE NO.:RULE TITLE:
65F-1.002Child Welfare Services Qualifications

CORRECTED NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 38, No. 68, November 8, 2012 issue of the Florida Administrative Register.

 

Rule 65F-1.002 is changed as indicated by the underlined text.

 

65F-1.002 Provision of Child Welfare Services Qualifications.

Child welfare services available to an Uunaccompanied refugee minors are eligible for the same child welfare services and benefits to the same extent and according to the same standards as are provided to other children of the same age in Florida.  Allowable benefits and services may include foster care maintenance payments, medical assistance, support services, services identified in the State's plans under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act; services permissible under title XX of the Social Security Act; and expenditures incurred in establishing legal responsibility shall be equivalent, within the meaning of 45 C.F.R. 400.116(a), to other children in Florida’s foster care. The eligibility requirements for specific  child welfare services provided in the applicable Florida Statutes and corresponding rules shall apply to an unaccompanied refugee minor seeking those services through the URMP, to the extent the applicable Florida Statutes or rule does not conflict with 45 C.F.R. Parts 400 and 401, which shall control. For purposes of Section 409.1451(2)(b), F.S., Ttime an unaccompanied refugee minor spends in foster care shall include time in the custody of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement shall be considered time spent in foster care for purposes of receiving Independent Living services.

Rulemaking Authority 402.86(2) FS. Law Implemented 402.86(1) FS.