Tribal Law - Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, Wisconsin; National Indian Law Library, Native American Rights Fund

Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin - Tribal Law

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Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Code of Law.

PAP.15.3.040 No Simultaneous Payments

(a) The relative caregiver does not simultaneously receive any of the following payments for the care and maintenance of the same child:

(1) Kinship care payments and long-term care payments.

(2) Kinship care payments or long-term kinship care payments and foster care payments under Wis. Stat. § 48.62(4); subsidized guardianship payments under Wis. Stat. § 48.623(1) or (6); or any comparable payments form another jurisdiction.

(3) The relative caregiver does not receive kinship care payments or long-term kinship care payments for providing care and maintenance for a child who is receiving supplemental security income under 42 U.S.C. § 1381 to 1383c or state supplemental payments under Wis. Stat. § 49.77, due to the child's own disability.