Haw. Code R. § 17-1621-9 - Eligibility requirements for state funded permanency assistance

(a) To be eligible for state funded permanency assistance, the following conditions shall be met:

(1) The child shall have been determined by the court to be unable to be reunified with the legal parent(s) and be under the placement responsibility of the department;

(2) The child shall have been provided with child welfare services under chapter 17-1610;

(3) The department shall have determined that adoption is not a viable goal for the child due to factors that may include, but are not limited to, the child's desire not to be adopted and/or the existence of significant ties to the current caregiver(s) who are unable or unwilling to adopt the child;

(4) The department shall have determined in accordance with departmental procedures that the proposed caregiver(s) is a licensed foster parent(s) or meets the requirements of chapters 17-1625, and is willing and able to provide for the needs of the child;

(5) The child shall not be eligible for foster care maintenance payments under chapter 17-1617; and

(6) The caregiver(s) shall have been awarded legal guardianship or permanent custody of the child as the result of a judicial determination made at the time the department had placement responsibility.

(b) Birth parents, stepparents and the caregivers from whom the child was removed prior to the award of placement responsibility to the department pursuant to chapter 587A HRS are not eligible to receive permanency assistance.

(c) An eligible child shall continue to be eligible for state funded permanency assistance after reaching the age of majority and the permanency assistance payments for that child shall continue to be paid to the caregiver(s), provided that the child is attending high school, until the end of the school year in which the child attains age twenty.

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Haw. Code R. § 17-1621-9

[Eff DEC 09 2010] (Auth: HRS § 346-14) (Imp: HRS § 346-14)