General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5644
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 1838
*01838*
Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
REP. SERRA, 33rd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5644
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 1838
*01838*
Referred to Committee on AGING
Introduced by:
REP. SERRA, 33rd Dist.
AN ACT INCREASING ASSISTANCE TO GRANDPARENTS AND OTHER RELATIVES RAISING CHILDREN.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That section 17b-112 of the general statutes be amended to make the payment standard for a family receiving temporary family assistance in which the head of the household is a nonparent caretaker relative and the legal guardian of a child equal to seventy-five per cent of the prevailing monthly foster care rate paid by the Department of Children and Families for the equivalent number of children.
Statement of Purpose:
To increase assistance to grandparents and other relatives raising children in the absence of parents.