ACYF-CB-IM-00-02

ACF Administration for Children and Families	U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Administration for Children, Youth and Families
	1. Log No.:ACYF-CB-IM-00-02	2. Issuance Date:February 18, 2000
	3. Originating Office: Children's Bureau
	4. Key Word:Title IV-E Eligibility Reviews, Enforcement of MEPA, Child and Family Services Review, Final Rule

INFORMATION MEMORANDUM

TO: State Agencies, Tribes, Tribal Organizations, and Territories Administering Titles IV-B and IV-E

SUBJECT: Final Rule for Titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act (the Act): Child and Family Services Reviews; Title IV-E Eligibility Reviews; Enforcement of Section 471(a)(18) of the Act; and the Foster Care Maintenance Payments Program

LEGAL AND RELATED REFERENCES: Titles IV-B and IV-E of the Social Security Act, the Social Security Act Amendments of 1994 (Public Law 103-432), the Multiethnic Placement Act as amended by Public Law 104-188; and the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-89).

PURPOSE: The purpose of this information memorandum (IM) is to inform the States, Tribes, and Territories of the publication of a final rule for title IV-B, Child and Family Services and title IV-E, Federal Payments for Foster Care and Adoption. This IM also identifies policies that are superseded by this final rule.

INFORMATION: A final rule was published on January 25, 2000 in the Federal Register (65 FR 4019 - 4093) that amends the Federal regulations at 45 CFR 1355 and 1356. This final rule:

amends existing regulations concerning Child and Family Services by adding new requirements governing the review of a State;s conformity with its plan under titles IV-B and IV-E of the Act;
codifies the corrective action/penalty structure at section 474(d) of the Act for use in enforcing the antidiscriminatiton requirements at section 471(a)(18) ;
implements the Federal foster care maintenance payments program, including certain provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and;
codifies the title IV-E foster care eligibility review process.

In this final rule, we have made significant revisions to the proposed rule, published in the Federal Register on September 18, 1998 (63 FR 50058), in response to the many comments we received.

SUPERSEDED MATERIAL: We are removing any policies that are now superseded as a result of this final rule, a statutory change, or are time sensitive. Attached, are two lists. The first identifies those issuances that are being withdrawn in their entirety. Since a single policy issuance can address numerous topics, the second list identifies those policy issuances where only a portion of the issuance is being superseded.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The final rule will be effective March 27,2000, 60 days after publication.

INQUIRES TO: ACF Regional Administrators

/s/
Patricia Montoya
Commissioner
Administration on Children, Youth, and Families

Attachments:

Final Rule - HTML version or PDF Version

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List of Withdrawn Policy Issuances
List of Superseded Policies