25 CFR Part 20
PART 20—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS
- PART 20—FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SOCIAL SERVICES PROGRAMS
- Chapter I—Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior › Subchapter D—Human Services
- Subpart A—Definitions, Purpose and Policy
- § 20.100 What definitions clarify the meaning of the provisions of this part?
- § 20.101 What is the purpose of this part?
- § 20.102 What is the Bureau's policy in providing financial assistance and social services under this part?
- § 20.103 Have the information collection requirements in this part been approved by the Office of Management and Budget?
- Subpart B—Welfare Reform
- § 20.200 What contact will the Bureau maintain with State, tribal, county, local, and other Federal agency programs?
- § 20.201 How does the Bureau designate a service area and what information is required?
- § 20.202 What is a tribal redesign plan?
- § 20.203 Can a tribe incorporate assistance from other sources into a tribal redesign plan?
- § 20.204 Must all tribes submit a tribal redesign plan?
- § 20.205 Can tribes change eligibility criteria or levels of payments for General Assistance?
- § 20.206 Must a tribe get approval for a tribal redesign plan?
- § 20.207 Can a tribe use savings from a tribal redesign plan to meet other priorities of the tribe?
- § 20.208 What if the tribal redesign plan leads to increased costs?
- § 20.209 Can a tribe operating under a tribal redesign plan go back to operating under this part?
- § 20.210 Can eligibility criteria or payments for Burial Assistance, Child Assistance, and Disaster Assistance and Emergency Assistance change?
- Subpart C—Direct Assistance
- Eligibility for Direct Assistance
- § 20.300 Who qualifies for Direct Assistance under this subpart?
- § 20.301 What is the goal of General Assistance?
- § 20.302 Are Indian applicants required to seek assistance through Temporary Assistance for Needy Families?
- § 20.303 When is an applicant eligible for General Assistance?
- § 20.304 When will the Bureau review eligibility for General Assistance?
- § 20.305 What is redetermination?
- § 20.306 What is the payment standard for General Assistance?
- Determining Need and Income
- § 20.307 What resources does the Bureau consider when determining need?
- § 20.308 What does earned income include?
- § 20.309 What does unearned income include?
- § 20.310 What recurring income must be prorated?
- § 20.311 What amounts will the Bureau deduct from earned income?
- § 20.312 What amounts will the Bureau deduct from income or other resources?
- § 20.313 How will the Bureau compute financial assistance payments?
- Employment Requirements
- § 20.314 What is the policy on employment?
- § 20.315 Who is not covered by the employment policy?
- § 20.316 What must a person covered by the employment policy do?
- § 20.317 How will the ineligibility period be implemented?
- § 20.318 What case management responsibilities does the social services worker have?
- § 20.319 What responsibilities does the general assistance recipient have?
- Tribal Work Experience Program (TWEP)
- § 20.320 What is TWEP?
- § 20.321 Does TWEP allow an incentive payment?
- § 20.322 Who can receive a TWEP incentive payment?
- § 20.323 Will the local TWEP be required to have written program procedures?
- Burial Assistance
- § 20.324 When can the Bureau provide Burial Assistance?
- § 20.325 Who can apply for Burial Assistance?
- § 20.326 Does Burial Assistance cover transportation costs?
- Disaster Assistance
- § 20.327 When can the Bureau provide Disaster Assistance?
- § 20.328 How can a tribe apply for Disaster Assistance?
- Emergency Assistance
- § 20.329 When can the Bureau provide Emergency Assistance payments?
- § 20.330 What is the payment standard for Emergency Assistance?
- Adult Care Assistance
- § 20.331 What is Adult Care Assistance?
- § 20.332 Who can receive Adult Care Assistance?
- § 20.333 How do I apply for Adult Care Assistance?
- § 20.334 What happens after I apply?
- § 20.335 What is the payment standard for Adult Care Assistance?
- Subpart D—Services to Children, Elderly, and Families
- § 20.400 Who should receive Services to Children, Elderly, and Families?
- § 20.401 What is included under Services to Children, Elderly, and Families?
- § 20.402 When are protective services provided?
- § 20.403 What do protective services include?
- § 20.404 What information is contained in a social services assessment?
- Subpart E—Child Assistance
- § 20.500 Who is eligible for Child Assistance?
- How Child Assistance Funds Can Be Used
- § 20.501 What services can be paid for with Child Assistance funds?
- § 20.502 Can Child Assistance funds be used to place Indian children in residential care facilities?
- § 20.503 When can Child Assistance funds be used for Indian adoption or guardianship subsidies?
- § 20.504 What short-term homemaker services can Child Assistance pay for?
- § 20.505 What services are provided jointly with the Child Assistance Program?
- Foster Care
- § 20.506 What information is required in the foster care case file?
- § 20.507 What requirements must foster care providers meet?
- § 20.508 What must the social services agency do when a child is placed in foster care, residential care or guardianship home?
- § 20.509 What must the social services worker do when a child is placed in foster care or residential care facility?
- § 20.510 How is the court involved in child placements?
- § 20.511 Should permanency plans be developed?
- § 20.512 Can the Bureau/tribal contractors make Indian adoptive placements?
- § 20.513 Should Interstate Compacts be used for the placement of children?
- § 20.514 What assistance can the courts request from social services on behalf of children?
- § 20.515 What is required for case management?
- § 20.516 How are child abuse, neglect or exploitation cases to be handled?
- Subpart F—Administrative Procedures
- § 20.600 Who can apply for financial assistance or social services?
- § 20.601 How can applications be submitted?
- § 20.602 How does the Bureau verify eligibility for social services?
- § 20.603 How is an application approved or denied?
- § 20.604 How is an applicant or recipient notified that benefits or services are denied or changed?
- § 20.605 What happens when an applicant or recipient appeals a decision under this subpart?
- § 20.606 How is an incorrect payment adjusted or recovered?
- § 20.607 What happens when applicants or recipients knowingly and willfully provide false or fraudulent information?
- Subpart G—Hearings and Appeals
- § 20.700 Can an applicant or recipient appeal the decision of a Bureau official?
- § 20.701 Does a recipient receive financial assistance while an appeal is pending?
- § 20.702 When is an appeal hearing scheduled?
- § 20.703 What must the written notice of hearing include?
- § 20.704 Who conducts the hearing or appeal of a Bureau decision or action and what is the process?
- § 20.705 Can an applicant or recipient appeal a tribal decision?
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