Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The Ohio
department of job and family services (ODJFS) issues the child, family, and
community protective services allocation to provide funding to the county
department of job and family services agencies (CDJFS) to enhance the
administration of family and social services duties. Each CDJFS shall use the
funds in accordance with the written plan of cooperation between the board of
county commissioners (BOCC), the CDJFS and the workforce development (WFD)
agency as required in section
307.983 of the Revised
Code.
(B) The child, family, and
community protective services allocation consists of one hundred per cent state
funds issued for the state fiscal year (SFY), July first through June
thirtieth. All expenditures incurred during the SFY must be liquidated no later
than the end of the three-month liquidation period of July first to September
thirtieth.
(C) Methodology.
ODJFS distributes five per cent of the child, family, and
community protective services allocation to each CDJFS based on county
population. ODJFS also distributes five per cent of the allocation to each
CDJFS based on each county's property tax wealth factors, as measured by the
total of the most recent real estate, public utility, and tangible personal
property tax values reported by the Ohio department of taxation and as
inversely compared statewide.
(1) The
remaining ninety per cent of the allocated amount will be distributed as
follows:
(a) Fifty per cent is based on the
county's population at or below one hundred fifty per cent of the federal
poverty level as compared statewide in the same category;
(b) Twenty per cent is based on the county's
population at or below eighteen years of age and at or below two hundred per
cent of the federal poverty level as compared statewide in the corresponding
categories;
(c) Twenty per cent is
based on the county's population at or over fifty-five years of age and at or
below two hundred per cent of the federal poverty level as compared statewide
in the corresponding categories; and,
(d) Ten per cent is based on the county's
average unemployment rate as compared to the average unemployment rate for all
eligible counties, utilizing figures from ODJFS for the most recently available
federal fiscal year (FFY).
Population figures are based upon the most recently available
United States bureau of census data.
(2) When there is more than a four per cent
decrease in the statewide allocation amount from the preceding year, ODJFS does
not apply the formula in paragraphs (C) and (C)(1) of this rule, but decreases
each CDJFS's preceding SFY allocation by the percentage of change to the
statewide allocation amount.
(3)
When the statewide allocation is the same as the preceding year, county
allocation amounts are calculated by applying the formula listed in paragraphs
(C) and (C) (1) of this rule. ODJFS caps increases and decreases in each
county's allocation at four per cent of the county's preceding year's
allocation amount. ODJFS proportionately distributes county increases of more
than four per cent to counties experiencing more than a four per cent
decrease.
(4) When the statewide
allocation amount increases from the preceding year:
(a) First, ODJFS distributes to each CDJFS
the same allocation amount received in the preceding year.
(b) Once the distribution of initial
allocation amounts is complete, ODJFS distributes the statewide increase to the
CDJFS by applying the formula listed in paragraph (C)(1) of this rule.
(D) The
CDJFS shall utilize the child, family, and community protective services
allocation for any of the following purposes, or may use the funding as state
or local match for costs associated with these purposes.
(1) To assist individuals to achieve or
maintain self-sufficiency, including by reducing or preventing dependency among
individuals with family income not exceeding two hundred per cent of the
federal poverty guidelines;
(2) To
provide outreach and referral services regarding home and community-based
services to individuals at risk of placement in a group home or institution,
regardless of the individual's family income and without need for a written
application;
(3) To provide
outreach, referral, application assistance, and other services to assist
individuals to receive assistance, benefits, or services under medicaid; Title
IV-A programs, as defined in section
5101.80 of the Revised Code;
food assistance issued under the supplemental nutrition assistance program
(SNAP); and other public assistance (PA) programs;
(4) To provide protective services to a child
or adult as part of a response to a report of abuse, neglect, or exploitation
without regard to income or need for a written application, including through
the differential response program developed under Section 309.50.10 of Amended
House Bill 64 of the 131st General Assembly.
(E) A combined CDJFS may use all or a portion
of its allocation to support its child support enforcement agency (CSEA) or
public children services agency (PCSA) activities. A CDJFS may also provide
all, or a portion of, its allocation to a stand alone CSEA or PCSA through an
interagency agreement. County agencies shall use the funding to provide
services for any of the purposes listed in paragraph (D) of this
rule.
(F) A CDJFS may also elect to
transfer all or a portion of its community and protective services allocation
to the county's family and children first council via transfer to a flexible
funding pool, using the codes established by ODJFS for this purpose.
(G) County family services agencies must
report expenditures as described in rule
5101:9-7-29
of the Administrative Code.
(H) The
definitions, requirements, and responsibilities contained in rule
5101:9-6-50
of the Administrative Code are applicable to this rule.
