2011 California Code
Welfare and Institutions Code
DIVISION 9. PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES [10000 - 18996]
CHAPTER 6.2. Foster Care Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Assistance Program
Section 13753
When a foster youth who is receiving SSI payments is approaching his or her 18th birthday, the county shall do all of the following:
(a) Provide information to the youth regarding the federal requirement that the youth establish continuing disability as an adult, if necessary, in order for SSI benefits to continue beyond his or her 18th birthday.
(b) Provide information to the youth regarding the process for becoming his or her own payee, or designating an appropriate representative payee if benefits continue beyond his or her 18th birthday, and regarding any SSI benefits that have accumulated on his or her behalf.
(c) Assist the youth, as appropriate, in fulfilling the requirements of subdivisions (a) and (b).
(Added by Stats. 2005, Ch. 641, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2006.)
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