What is Title IV-E determination?
Under Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, states, territories, and tribes are entitled to claim partial federal reimbursement for the cost of providing foster care, adoption assistance, and kinship guardianship assistance to children who meet federal eligibility criteria.
What is a guardian Grant?
Caregivers can assume legal guardianship of a child in out-of-home care without termination of parental rights, as is required for an adoption. Subsidized guardianships provide financial assistance to caregivers who assume legal guardianship of a child in out-of-home care.
What is Title IV adoption?
Title IV-E is the federal program that provides financial support to adoptive parents of children with special needs. Maintaining benefits when adopting from another state or moving to a new state after adoption may be easier when children are IV-E eligible. Most children are IV-E eligible.
What do Title IV-E funds pay for?
Title IV-E pays for costs associated with placement (board and care) for eligible children, case management, administration, and training. Title IV-E also provides funding for the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) to encourage the adoption of special needs children.
How is Title IV-E funded?
Funding is awarded by formula as an open-ended entitlement grant and is contingent upon an approved title IV-E plan to administer or supervise the administration of the program. Only the public agency or Tribe designated to provide a program of foster care is eligible to apply for and receive direct title IV-E funding.
What rights do guardians have?
Legal guardians have custody of the children and the authority to make decisions concerning the protection, education, care, discipline, etc. Legal guardianship is assigned by a court, such as the family court, according to state laws.
Do legal guardians have educational rights?
Parents/legal guardians usually hold educational rights for their children. For a minor under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court, the judge may decide to temporarily or permanently remove the right of the parent/legal guardian to make educational decisions, and give that right to another adult.
Who administers IV-E?
The Office of Child Support Enforcement administers the child support program under Title IV, Part D. Title IV appears in the United States Code as §§601–687, subchapter IV, chapter 7, Title 42.
Where do Title IV-E funds come from?
Title IV-E foster care funds are awarded to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and federally-recognized Indian Tribes, Indian Tribal organizations and Tribal consortia with approved title IV-E plans, and are available as open-ended entitlement grants through single-year appropriations.
What is Title IV-E guardianship assistance?
The Children’s Bureau provides funding to states and tribes that have been approved to operate a title IV-E Guardianship Assistance program in order to help them support relatives who become legal guardians of children from foster care for whom they previously cared for as foster parents.
Who is eligible for the guardianship assistance program?
The fifty (50) States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Tribes with approved title IV-E plans are eligible to participate in the Guardianship Assistance Program awards. As of June 2021, 53 Title IV-E Agencies have approved Title IV-E plan amendments that enable them to make claims for federal support of eligible guardianship assistance.
What is federal assistance for kinship guardianship?
Federal assistance is available to States and Tribes for payments made to a relative guardian in accordance with a kinship guardianship agreement that is in writing, negotiated and is binding.
How many Title IV-E plan amendments have been approved so far?
As of June 2021, 53 Title IV-E Agencies have approved Title IV-E plan amendments that enable them to make claims for federal support of eligible guardianship assistance.