Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
TITLE 340. Department of Human Services |
Chapter 75. Child Welfare Services |
Subchapter 7. Foster Home Care |
Part 5. ELIGIBILITY AND PAYMENTS |
SECTION 340:75-7-52.1. Social Security benefits
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- Resource parent may become payee of certain benefits provided to the child. The resource parent may opt to receive an Oklahoma Department of Human Services (DHS) foster care maintenance payment or a Social Security benefit payment for which the child is eligible. Upon application, the resource parent with whom the child in DHS custody has lived continuously for at least nine months may become the payee to receive the child's Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Administration (SSA) benefits.