Code of Colorado Regulations
2500 - Department of Human Services
2501 - Human Services Administration (Volume 1)
9 CCR 2501-1 - RULE MANUAL VOLUME 1, GENERAL POLICIES AND ADMINISTRATION
Section 9 CCR 2501-1.120 - AUTHORITY

Section 26-1-111(2)(d)(I), Colorado Revised Statutes, stipulates that the State Department shall: "Provide services to county governments including the organization and supervision of county departments for the effective administration of public assistance and welfare functions as set out in the rules of the Executive Director and the rules of the State Board pursuant to Section 26-1-107 as to program scope and content, including assistance payments, food stamps, and social services, and compilation of statistics and necessary information relative to assistance payments, food stamps, social services, child welfare services, including out-of-home placement services, rehabilitation, programs for the aging, and veterans' programs throughout the state, and obtaining federal reimbursement moneys available under the Title IV-E program created under the federal "Social Security Act", as amended, based on out-of-home placements and alternative care treatment by county departments of children eligible for Title IV-E federal assistance, which moneys shall be allocated to counties to help defray the costs of performing its functions; except that nothing in this paragraph (d) shall be construed to allow counties to continue to receive an amount equal to the increased funding in the event the said funding is no longer available from the federal government."