1. (1) The regional adoption assistance committee may temporarily suspend monthly subsidy payments in situations in which a payment is sent to a parent's home address and cannot be delivered or a direct deposit payment notice is returned to the office of Child and Family Services as unable to deliver.
2. (2) The regional adoption assistance committee may suspend subsidy payments until the parent contacts Child and Family Services to establish an address for the parent.
3. (3) The regional adoption assistance committee will end the monthly subsidies after one year of suspended monthly subsidies.
4. (4) If the parent contacts Child and Family Services after ending the monthly subsidy, Child and Family Services will repay up to one year of monthly subsidy payments at the amount determined in the adoption assistance agreement.

5. (5) The regional adoption assistance committee may suspend monthly subsidy payments for a child that is in out-of-home care and receiving supplemental adoption assistance to help with the cost of that out-of-home care. This will not affect state medical assistance, Medicaid.

   1. (a) A parent must request and be approved for supplemental adoption assistance in order for Child and Family Services to pay for a child to receive out-of-home care.
   2. (b) The suspension will begin the month following the approval of supplemental adoption assistance for out-of-home care.
   3. (c) The term of the suspension will be the period that supplemental adoption assistance is approved for out-of-home care.
   4. (d) The monthly subsidy payment will resume the month after the completion of the out-of-home care and a child returns to the adoptive home.

6. (6) Child and Family Services will send a notice of suspension to the adoptive parent. The notice will:

   1. (a) state the reason for the suspension;
   2. (b) specify the timeframe for the suspension; and
   3. (c) provide information to the adoptive parents that they have a right to a fair hearing as provided in Section R512-43-12 if they disagree with the suspension.

KEY: adoption, child welfare, foster care

Date of Last Change: June 11, 2025

Notice of Continuation: July 28, 2025

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 80-2-301; 80-2-302; 80-2-801; 80-2-806; 80-2-807