N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 18 § 463.2

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 51, December 18, 2024

Section 463.2 - The offer

(a) Each public-assistance and medical-assistance-only family shall be apprised personally and in writing of the social, educational, and medical family-planning services available to eligible members of the family in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) Personally at time of face-to-face interviews for intake, redetermination, and recertification.

(2) By means of a department flyer for the program mailed with the first assistance check, or the notification of MA-only acceptance, and once a year thereafter.

(b)

(1) Each foster parent providing care for an adolescent who is 12 years of age or over must be advised, in writing, initially and annually thereafter, of the availability for each adolescent of social, educational and medical family-planning services by means of a letter or brochure designed for this purpose.

(2) A child-caring agency may, with the prior approval of the local commissioner of social services or upon the delegation of such responsibility by the local commissioner of social services, offer family-planning services to all foster children who are 12 years of age or older for whom such services would be appropriate through the agency's caseworker contact and as part of the comprehensive service plan for each child. Such an offer may be made orally to the child as long as it is also made in writing, by means of a letter or brochure designed for this purpose. If such a plan is developed by a social services district, the district must continue to monitor the particular child-caring agency's program implementation, to assure that the offer is being made in writing and that requested services are provided within 30 days, and to require and collect reports and data from the agency.

(c) Each public-assistance applicant denied assistance or whose application has been withdrawn shall be advised at that time, in writing, of the availability to eligible members of the family of the social and educational services of the program for a period of 90 days from the date of application. The means of notification may be an income-maintenance pamphlet which contains this information and which is required to be handed all applicants at intake. The alternative method is to notify the applicant by mail.

(d) Each public-assistance family, at the time of case closing, shall be advised at that time, in writing, by means of a department form letter designed for this purpose, of the availability to eligible members of the family of the social and educational services of the program for a period of 90 days from the date of closing.

(e) Each SSI beneficiary shall be notified of the availability of family-planning services. The means of notification may be either by pamphlet or by form letter.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 18 § 463.2