5195-5        CHANGING FROM TITLE IV-E FOSTER CARE TO ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

Occasionally a Title IV-E Foster Care child will become a Title IV-E Adoption Assistance child.  When this occurs, the OCS Office of Children's Services regional IV-E designee will inform the eligibility caseworker of the change in status by submitting a GEN 33A; the Adoption Coordinator supplies a copy of the subsidized adoption agreement.   (The adoption does not need to be final for the child's status to change; a signed adoption agreement in effect is all that is required.)  

The caseworker must take action to:
 

• change the Medicaid subtype and eligibility codes;
   

• set the review date to coincide with the subsidized adoption review;
   

• ensure that the Medicaid benefit address is that of the adoptive parents; and
   

• ensure that the notice/review mailing address is that of OCS Office of Children's Services central office (see EIS Eligibility Information System Information below).