474 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 008

Current through September 17, 2024

Section 474-1-008 - NEEDS ELIGIBILITY

Social Services are authorized based on the applicant or recipient's income eligibility and needs and are not provided based on demand. Need for a particular service implies that the provision of that service will assist the applicant, recipient or the family members toward achieving one of the following five program goals in 42 U.S.C. § 1397:

(A) Achieving or maintaining economic self-support to prevent, reduce, or eliminate dependency;

(B) Achieving or maintaining self-sufficiency, including reduction or prevention of dependency;

(C) Preventing or remedying neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults unable to protect their own interests, or preserving, rehabilitating, or reuniting families;

(D) Preventing or reducing inappropriate institutional care by providing for community based care, home based care, or other forms of less intensive care; or

(E) Securing referral or admission for institutional care when other forms of care are not appropriate.

008.01ECONOMIC SELF-SUPPORT. Economic self-support means that a recipient no longer receives any public assistance. Recipients working on this goal are in various levels of achievement or maintenance of economic self-support. Services available include homemaker and transportation services.

008.02SELF SUFFICIENCY. Recipients working on this goal must have realistic expectations of residing in their own homes or current living arrangements while receiving only limited services. Services available include homemaker and transportation services.

008.03PREVENTING OR REMEDYING NEGLECT, ABUSE OR EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN AND REUNITING FAMILIES. A family achieves this goal when the family no longer requires intervention or support to ensure against neglect, abuse or exploitation or when a family in a family in which these behavior have occurred no longer requires intervention or support to prevent recurrence. Services available include adoption services, including subsidized adoption, permanent planning services for children, homemaker, interstate placement, child protective services and transportation.

008.04NEEDS CRITERIA. An applicant or recipient has no defined service need when:

(A) The applicant or recipient is able to perform or provide for identified service needs;

(B) The applicant or recipient has household members or caretakers who have the responsibility or capability to meet identified service needs;

(C) The applicant or client has other relatives, friends, or interested individuals who will provide identified service needs at no cost to the applicant or recipient;

(D) The applicant or recipient has access to financial resources which may be used to meet the needs;

(E) The applicant or recipient is residing in an institution except in relation to deinstitutionalization and short-term care; or

(F) The applicant or recipient does not meet the requirements specified for each service.

008.05SERVICE PLAN OBJECTIVES. The applicant or recipient must cooperate with the Department in formulating a service plan. The service plan assists with evaluating the approach, determining whether the goals are attainable and determining whether social services are appropriate. The objectives in formulating a service plan are to:

(A) Identify the applicant or recipient's current situation;

(B) Determine if the applicant or recipient is functioning at the highest possible level;

(C) Identify barriers which hinder maintenance or improvement in the applicant or recipient's present level of functioning;

(D) Determine which available services, if any, will remove or overcome the barriers to maintaining or improving the present level of functioning; and

(E) Develop a plan for delivery of specific services directed at removing specific barriers to enable the applicant or recipient to maintain or attain goals.

474 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 1, § 008

Adopted effective 6/26/2022