La. Admin. Code tit. 67 § V-707

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 11, November 20, 2024

Section V-707 - Eligibility

A. Certain individuals and categories of individuals may be eligible for services according to federal regulations. These are:

1. individuals, without regard to income, who are in need of adoption, child protection investigations, family services and/or foster care/residential habilitation services;

2. individuals without regard to income who are recipients of Title IVE Adoption Assistance as amended by U.S. Public Law 96-272 including adoption assistance recipients who relocate to Louisiana from another state that is signatory to the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance;

3. individuals without regard to income who are currently certified as classmembers in the federal class action judgement "Gary W. et al v. State of Louisiana et al," United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Civil Action No. 74-2412, who are in need of any service (including children's day care) provided under the Intended Use Report;

4. recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and those persons whose needs were taken into account in determining the needs of AFDC recipients;

5. recipients of Supplemental Security Income payments, or state supplemental payments, and blind and disabled individuals eligible for such payments except for their earned income;

6. families with gross incomes which do not exceed 125 percent of the poverty level, as published yearly by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Federal Register. Family is defined as the basic family unit consisting of one or more adults and children, if any, related by blood or law and residing in the same household:

a. where adults other than spouses reside together, each is considered a separate family;

b. cohabitating non legal spouses are considered separate families;

c. when children are present in the home with non legal spouses, the parent who has primary responsibility for the care of his/her natural children is considered as being in the same family unit with the children;

d. emancipated minors, foster children and children living under the care of individuals not legally responsible for their care are considered one person families.

7. Title XIX (Medicaid) recipients and applicants for Title XIX (Medicaid) vendor payment for skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility services, residing within the state, are eligible for any appropriate service except day care for children which requires applicants meet additional eligibility criteria which are described in the final Intended Use Report;

8. residents of the Housing Authority of New Orleans projects and related sites are group eligible for necessary and available services with the exception of day care for children, which maintains special eligibility criteria which are described in the final Intended Use Report.

La. Admin. Code tit. 67, § V-707

Promulgated by the Department of Social Services, Office of Community Services, LR 17:1118 (November 1991), amended LR 18:747 (July 1992).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with P.L. 97-35, Sections 2351 -55 (42 U.S.C. 1397 - 1397 e).