PAP.15.6.130 Long-Term Kinship Care Agreement.

If the LCO Kinship Care Office determines that a relative caregiver is eligible to receive long-term kinship care payments, the Office shall enter into a written agreement with the relative caregiver using DCF-F-CFS2190-E, Long-Term Kinship Care Agreement. Under the written agreement, the relative caregiver agrees to provide care and maintenance for the child and the LCO Kinship Care Office agrees to provide long-term kinship care payments to the relative caregiver until the date of a change in circumstances specified in Wis. Stat. § 48.57(3n)(am)6.

Note: DCF−F−CFS2190−E, Long−Term Kinship Care Agreement, is available on the department's website at https://dcf.wisconsin.gov/forms.

(a) There are only minor differences in the eligibility criteria for kinship care and long-term kinship care. If a relative caregiver receiving kinship care payments is appointed the child's guardian, the LCO Kinship Care Office and relative caregiver will enter Long-Term Kinship Care Agreement and the Office will update the program type to long-term kinship care.