California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 4.5 - Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program

• Section 11360.
  Effective on the date that the director executes a declaration pursuant to Section 11217, the department shall establish a state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program...
• Section 11361.
  The Legislature finds and declares that the continuation of the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program is intended to enhance family preservation and stability by...
• Section 11362.
  For purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply:(a) “Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payments (Kin-GAP)” means the state-funded aid provided under the terms of this article...
• Section 11363.
  (a) Aid in the form of state-funded Kin-GAP shall be provided under this article on behalf of any child under 18 years of age and to...
• Section 11364.
  (a) In order to receive payments under this article, the county child welfare agency, probation department, Indian tribe, consortium of tribes, or tribal organization that has...
• Section 11366.
  A child who is eligible to receive Medi-Cal benefits with no share of cost shall maintain that eligibility notwithstanding the receipt of state-funded Kin-GAP by...
• Section 11367.
  The supplemental clothing allowance shall be paid pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (f) of Section 11461.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 559, Sec....
• Section 11369.
  (a) Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act, Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the...
• Section 11370.
  The county welfare department or probation department or Indian tribe, as appropriate, at the time of the Kin-GAP annual redetermination, shall meet with the relative...
• Section 11371.
  Income to the child, including the state-funded Kin-GAP payment, shall not be considered income to the kinship guardian for purposes of determining the kinship guardian’s...
• Section 11372.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the state-funded Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment Program implemented under this article is exempt from the provisions of Chapter 2...
• Section 11374.
  (a) Each county that formally had court ordered jurisdiction under Section 300, 601, or 602 over a child receiving benefits under the state-funded Kin-GAP program shall...
• Section 11375.
  The following shall apply to any child or nonminor in receipt of state-funded Kin-GAP benefits:(a) He or she is eligible to request and receive independent living...
• Section 11376.
  A foster child who has become the subject of a legal guardianship, who is receiving assistance under the Kin-GAP Program under this article or under...
• Section 11378.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to provide a seamless and minimally intrusive process to allow an otherwise federally eligible child who is receiving...
• Section 11379.
  This article shall become operative on the date that the Director of Social Services executes the declaration required pursuant to Section 11217, stating that increased...

Last modified: October 22, 2018