5195-3        RESPONSIBILITY TO APPLY

OCS Office of Children's Services administers the Title IV-E program in Alaska and is responsible for making Medicaid application for these children, cooperating with CSSD Child Support Services Division , for those Title IV-E subsidized adoption and foster care cases under their jurisdiction, including foster care cases originating out-of-state.   Foster care cases originating out of state will be handled by OCS Office of Children's Services under the terms of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) agreement.

For children under Title IV-E and state-only adoption assistance agreements originating in other states, the adoptive parents are responsible for applying and providing necessary information and verifications from the other state, including a copy of the adoption assistance agreement.  Application would be made on the GEN 50B Application for Services , but the parental income and resources would not be considered.