10A NCAC 70M .0603. REQUIREMENTS

The non‑recurring expenses of a person who adopts a child with special needs will be reimbursed up to the maximum allowable amount based on the following criteria:

(1)           The child cannot or should not be returned to the home of his parents.

(2)           The child has been determined by a county department of social services to have special needs due to one or more of the following:

(a)           a physical, mental, or emotional disability, or high risk factor for such due to background history; or

(b)           is a member of a sibling group being placed together.

(3)           Reasonable but unsuccessful efforts have been made to place the child into an adoptive home without providing adoption assistance, except when it would be against the best interests of the child to seek a family other than the one with which he has been living as a foster child and with whom he has established significant emotional ties.

(4)           On or before entry of the final order of adoption a written agreement concerning reimbursement of non‑recurring costs is entered into between a county department of social services and a person who adopts a child with special needs.  Exceptions to this requirement include:

(a)           those whose adoptions were completed prior to January 1, 1987 but the non‑recurring adoption expenses were paid after January 1, 1987; and

(b)           those whose adoptions were completed between January 1, 1987 and on or before June 14, 1988.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 108A‑49; 108A‑50; 143B‑153;

Eff. July 1, 1991.