Section 58.06. Timeline for action on an application.

 

(1)  

(a) An agency shall request a criminal background check from the department of justice and all applicable law enforcement agencies within 5 working days after receipt of the information necessary to conduct the criminal background check from the applicant or kinship care or long-term kinship care relative.

(b) An agency shall approve or deny an application for a kinship care or long-term kinship care payment within 45 days after the agency receives the completed application.

(2)  Each agency shall establish a written policy indicating when the kinship care or long-term kinship care payment will begin, but the written policy shall provide for the payment to begin no later than:

(a) If the placement is court-ordered, the date on which the child was placed by the court order with the relative or 90 days prior to the date on which the agency received the completed application.

(b) If the placement is not court ordered, the date on which the completed application was received.

(c) A retroactive payment under pars. (a) and (b) shall be made once the application is approved.

(d) Paragraphs (b) and (c) do not apply if the applicant or kinship care relative is placed on a waiting list.

CR 99-071 : cr. Register January 2002 No. 553 , eff. 2-1-02.