South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 67 - Department of Social Services
Article 67:10 - Temporary assistance to needy families
Chapter 67:10:05 - Budgeting
Section 67:10:05:04 - Payment standard - Child not living with parent and placed by child placement agency
The payment standard for an assistance unit which contains a child or children placed by the department, a licensed child placement agency, or a tribal or BIA social services agency under a court order, but which does not contain a parent who is receiving assistance for the parent's own child is the department's basic family foster care rate. The department shall pay this rate for the first child in care that meets the criteria contained in this section. If the assistance unit contains more than one child, the department shall pay $53 for each additional child in care.
The current court order or child placement agreement placing the child into the assistance unit must be current.
General Authority: SDCL 28-7A-3(1).
Law Implemented: SDCL 28-7A-3(1), 28-7A-4.
License or registration required for child care or placement by public or private agency -- Waiver violation as misdemeanor, SDCL 26-6-9; Categories of child welfare agency licenses -- Child placement agency, SDCL 26-6-14(4).