Indiana Administrative Code
Title 465 - DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SERVICES
Article 4 - INDIANA ADOPTION ASSISTANCE AND GUARDIANSHIP ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Rule 2 - Title IV-E Guardianship Assistance Program and State Guardianship Assistance Program
Section 2-33 - Continuation of guardianship assistance agreements beyond age 18

Universal Citation: 465 IN Admin Code 2-33

Current through March 20, 2024

Authority: IC 31-25-2-18

Affected: IC 29-3-8-9; IC 31-9-2-17.8; IC 31-25-2-7; IC 31-25-2-8

Sec. 33.

(a) Guardianship assistance will not be continued beyond the date on which the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age, unless continuation of guardianship assistance has been approved by the department.

(b) A child for whom an order creating a guardianship containing the requirements set out in IC 29-3-8-9 was entered after the child's sixteenth birthday will be approved for continuation of guardianship assistance after the child's eighteenth birthday upon documentation that the child is or will be:

(1) employed for at least eighty (80) hours per month;

(2) attending school or a vocational or educational certification or degree program;

(3) participating in a program or activity designed to promote or remove barriers to employment; or

(4) incapable of performing any of the activities in subdivisions (1) through (3) due to a documented medical condition.

(c) A completed continuation application for purposes of subsection (b) must be received by the department not more than ninety (90) days nor less than thirty (30) days prior to the child's eighteenth birthday.

(d) Guardianship assistance continued under subsection (b) will terminate not later than the date of the child's twentieth birthday.

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