10.1 Eligibility for Parent or Caretaker Relative of Child Removed from Home

Qualifying parents and caretaker relative s of children who have been temporarily removed from the home and are in the care of the child welfare system may be eligible for BadgerCare Plus benefits under the parent/caretaker relative category if they meet all the following requirements:

The child was living with the parent or caretaker relative at the time the child welfare agency removed the child and placed the child in:
- Foster care (both IV-E and non-IV-E).
- Court-ordered Kinship Care.
- Another living arrangement.

Note

If child welfare is involved and the child welfare agency has established a permanency plan for the child under authority of Wis. Stat. § 48.38 or 938.38, other living arrangements for the children meet this criteron. For example, a child may be placed with grandparents who are not eligible for Kinship Care, or a child may be placed with the other parent.

The parent or caretaker relative is cooperating with a permanency plan, the goal of which is family reunification. Cooperation is always presumed unless the court has determined that reunification will no longer be the permanency goal.
The parent or caretaker relative meets all other BadgerCare Plus financial and non-financial requirements.

Note	Children are not considered to be in the care of the child welfare system if they are an inmate in a public institution, such as a Type 1 Juvenile Correctional Institution.

The parent or caretaker relative who meets the above requirements is considered to be caring for a child who is temporarily absent from the home. For this reason, the parent or caretaker relative will continue to be considered a parent or caretaker for purposes of BadgerCare Plus eligibility. However, the child may not always be included in the parent or caretaker relative’s MAGI group (see Chapter 2 BadgerCare Plus Group).

This page last updated in Release Number: 22-03
Release Date: 12/05/2022
Effective Date: 12/05/2022

The information concerning the BadgerCare Plus program provided in this handbook release is published in accordance with: Titles XI, XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act; Parts 430 through 481 of Title 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations; Chapter 49 of the Wisconsin Statutes; and Chapters HA 3, DHS 2 and 101 through 109 of the Wisconsin Administrative Code.

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