225C.38 - PAYMENT -- AMOUNT -- REPORTS.
225C.38 PAYMENT -- AMOUNT -- REPORTS.
1. If an application for a family support subsidy is approved by
the department:
a. A family support subsidy shall be paid to the parent or
legal guardian on behalf of the family member. An approved subsidy
shall be payable as of the first of the next month after the
department approves the written application.
b. A family support subsidy shall be used to meet the special
needs of the family. This subsidy is intended to complement but not
supplant public assistance or social service benefits based on
economic need, available through governmental programs or other means
available to the family.
c. Except as provided in section 225C.41, a family support
subsidy for a fiscal year shall be in an amount determined by the
department in consultation with the comprehensive family support
council created in section 225C.48. The parent or legal guardian
receiving a family support subsidy may elect to receive a payment
amount which is less than the amount determined in accordance with
this paragraph.
2. The department shall administer the family support subsidy
program and the payments made under the program as follows:
a. In each fiscal year, the department shall establish a
figure for the number of family members for whom a family support
subsidy shall be provided at any one time during the fiscal year.
The figure shall be established by dividing the amount appropriated
by the general assembly for family support subsidy payments during
the fiscal year by the family support subsidy payment amount
established in subsection 1, paragraph "c".
b. On or before July 15 in each fiscal year, the department
shall approve the provision of a number of family support subsidies
equal to the figure established in paragraph "a". During any
thirty-day period, the number of family members for whom a family
support subsidy is provided shall not be less than this figure.
c. Unless there are exceptional circumstances and the family
requests and receives approval from the department for an exception
to policy, a family is not eligible to receive the family support
subsidy if any of the following are applicable to the family or the
family member for whom the application was submitted:
(1) The family member is a special needs child who was adopted by
the family and the family is receiving financial assistance under
section 600.17.
(2) Medical assistance home and community-based waiver services
are provided for the family member and the family lives in a county
in which comprehensive family support program services are available.
(3) Medical assistance home and community-based waiver services
are provided for the family member under a consumer choices option.
3. The parent or legal guardian who receives a family support
subsidy shall report, in writing, the following information to the
department:
a. Not less than annually, a statement that the family
support subsidy was used to meet the special needs of the family.
b. The occurrence of any event listed in section 225C.40.
c. A request to terminate the family support subsidy. &nb
Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1122, §5; 91 Acts, ch 38, §2, 3; 98 Acts, ch 1218,
§71; 2006 Acts, ch 1159, §12, 13, 29
Referred to in § 225C.36, 225C.40