WAC 110-50-0470. Payments to relative caregivers and suitable persons

Relative caregivers and suitable persons: (1) Licensed or certified as family foster homes under chapter 74.15 RCW will receive foster care maintenance payments on behalf of children or youth. If the family is eligible for a nonneedy grant for the same child or youth through the department of social and health services (DSHS) community services office (CSO), they must either receive foster care maintenance payments or nonneedy grants, but not both. (2) Not licensed or certified for foster care, may apply for the nonneedy grant through the DSHS CSO.