NDAC 75-02-01.2-64
Essential services
Cite as N.D. Admin. Code § 75-02-01.2-64
1.
The human service zone may determine a service, which the family cannot perform
independently because of infirmity or illness, is essential to the well-being of the household.
2.
"Essential service" includes housekeeping services and child care during a caregiver's illness
or hospitalization, attendant services, and extraordinary costs of accompanying a member of
the family to a distant medical or rehabilitation facility, arising out of a special need or condition
of a member of the household or an ineligible caretaker who is not a parent of a child in the
household and may include other expenses and services, provided:
a.
The need is unforeseen and due to no fault of the household;
b.
The department is the payer of last resort; and
c.
The household receives prior approval from the department.
3.
The cost of essential services, which is a special item of need:
a.
May be provided for in the cash grant only if the cost has been established through
negotiations with the provider of the services; and
b.
Must be budgeted and paid retrospectively or prospectively or by supplemental
payments.