10.1 Child Welfare Parent or Caretaker Relative

Qualifying parents and caretaker A person who provides care and support to a minor child. relatives of children who have been temporarily removed from the home and are in the care of the child welfare system may be eligible for BC+ benefits if they meet the following requirements:
 

1. Their child was placed (by the child welfare agency) in:
    

2. 1. Foster care, (both IV-E and non IV-E).

   2. Court Ordered Kinship Care.
       

2. The caretaker relative is cooperating with a permanency plan, the goal of which is family reunification.  Cooperation is always presumed unless the court has determined that reunification will no longer be the permanency goal and
    

3. The caretaker relative meets all other BC+ financial and non-financial requirements.
    

The parents/caretaker relative who meet the above requirements are considered caring for a child who has been temporarily removed from the home. Even though the child’s eligibility is not determined on the caretaker relative's case, the child is included in the group size in the eligibility determination and any unearned income the child has is budgeted.
 

Note:  Children are not considered to be in the care of the child welfare system if they are an inmate in a public institution, such as a Type 1 Juvenile Correctional Institution.

If the Child Welfare System places a child with a Kinship Care relative, the Kinship Care relative may qualify for BC+ as the caretaker relative of this child even if the Child Welfare parent/caretaker is also determined eligible as the caretaker relative of this child.  

See Process Help for information on processing the Child Welfare Parent or Caretaker relative cases.

This page last updated in Release Number: 07-01

Release Date: 10/29/07

Effective Date The begin date of a specific action such as an approval, denial, closure or other change in eligibility or coverage.: 02/01/08