Haw. Code R. § 17-1621-25 - Termination of permanency assistance

(a) Title IV-E kinship guardianship assistance shall be terminated when:

(1) The child has reached the age of eighteen years;

(2) Where the department determines that the child has a mental or physical handicap which warrants the continuation of assistance, the age of twenty-one.

(3) The legal guardian(s) or permanent custodian(s) is no longer supporting the child; or

(4) The legal guardian(s) or permanent custodian(s) is no longer legally responsible for the support of the child.

(b) State funded permanency assistance shall be terminated when:

(1) The child has reached the age of eighteen years and is not attending high school;

(2) The child has completed the school year in which age twenty years is attained;

(3) The legal guardian(s) or permanent custodian(s) is no longer supporting the child;

(4) The legal guardian(s) or permanent custodian(s) is no longer legally responsible for the support of the child;

(5) The child's need for permanency assistance no longer exists;

(6) The legal guardian(s) or permanent custodian(s) are able to assume full financial responsibility and no longer wish to continue the permanency assistance;

(7) The child goes into an adoptive home;

(8) The child has achieved independent living and is self-supporting;

(9) The youth receives higher education board allowance payments;

(10) The child enters a state institution for mental retardation or mental illness;

(11) The child is placed in a correctional facility;

(12) The child is admitted to a residential treatment facility or a medical facility for extended treatment and the caregiver(s) is not contributing to the cost of this placement;

(13) The child no longer meets the eligibility requirements for state funded permanency assistance; or

(14) The permanency assistance agreement is no longer current and valid.

Notes

Haw. Code R. § 17-1621-25

[Eff DEC 09 2010] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: HRS § 346-14; 42 U.S.C. §673(a)(4))