Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 474 - SOCIAL SERVICES FOR FAMILIES, CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.
Section 474-1-008 - NEEDS ELIGIBILITY
Current through September 17, 2024
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.
008.01 ECONOMIC 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.
008.02 SELF 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.
008.03 PREVENTING 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.
008.04 NEEDS CRITERIA. An applicant or recipient has no defined service need when:
008.05 SERVICE 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:
