(A) The Ohio
department of job and family services (ODJFS), as a recipient of federal
funding, functions as a "pass-through entity" for "pass-through funding" to
CFSAs as defined in section
307.981 of the Revised
Code.
(B) Funding
"Federal financial participation" (FFP) means the federal
government's share of allowable expenditures. FFP is available as pass-through
funding for allowable expenditures for services and activities properly
attributable to the programs outlined in paragraph (C) of this rule. The CFSA
may access the FFP for allowable expenditures via the county draw and
expenditure reporting process in the county finance and information system
(CFIS). The CFSA is eligible for the FFP or state-funded match of allowable
costs, up to the maximum amount of funds available, for the following types of
funding:
(1) Public assistance (PA)
agency
(a) The food assistance (FA) program,
administered by United States department of agriculture (USDA), food and
nutrition services (FNS) under the authority of
7 C.F.R. part
277.4, assists low-income
households to purchase food. The matching requirement for the FA program is
fifty per cent. The
catalog of federal domestic
assistance (CFDA)
assistance listing
number
(ALN) for this allocation is
10.561.
(b) The medical assistance program,
administered by the U.S. department of health and human services (HHS) centers
for medicare and medicaid services (CMS). The
catalog of federal domestic assistance (CFDA)
number
ALN for this funding is
93.778.
(c) The state children's insurance program
(SCHIP), administered by U.S. HHS CMS under the authority of Title XIX of the
Social Security Act. The
catalog of federal domestic
assistance (CFDA) number
ALN for this
funding is
93.767.
(d) Medicaid at-risk pregnancy (ARP)
transportation, medicaid healthchek, and medicaid non-emergency transportation
(NET) as described in rule
5101:9-6-44.1 of the Administrative
Code.
(2) Child support
enforcement agency (CSEA) Title IV-D funding as described in paragraph (C)(1)
of rule
5101:9-6-90 of the
Administrative Code.
(3) Public
children services agency (PCSA)
(a) Medicaid
child welfare related. The
CFDA number
ALN for this funding is
93.778.
(b) Title IV-E funding as described in
rule
rules
5101:9-6-28
and 5101:9-6-62 of the
Revised
Administrative Code.
(C) ODJFS utilizes the following methodology
to distribute funds for pass-through allocations:
(1) ODJFS allocates initial pass-through
funding to the CFSA based on the greater of:
(a) The average of the CFSA's last two years
reported expenditures; or
(b) The
total of the CFSA's last four completed quarters' reported expenditures.
A CFSA with no reported expenditures over either time period
will receive a minimum budget.
(2) The CFSA may submit an FFP allocation
increase request in CFIS and ODJFS will review the request and:
(a) Approve the request; and/ or
(b) Request justification from the CFSA for
an estimate of current quarter expenditures; and/or
(c) Deny the request.
(3) Funding is based on reported expenditures
and any unspent budget may be adjusted at the discretion of ODJFS to meet
current statewide funding.
(D) The grant availability for pass-through
funding is communicated by ODJFS through the county finance information system
(CFIS).
(E) The CFSA may access
federal pass-through funding and state allocations using CFIS expenditures
reporting and draw request processes or via quarterly reimbursement.
(F) The CFSA shall report revenues and
expenditures for the pass-through funding as described in rule
5101:9-7-29 of the
Administrative Code.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code
5101:9-6-44
Effective:
4/23/2023
Promulgated Under:
111.15
Statutory
Authority: 5101.02
Rule
Amplifies: 5101.02
Prior
Effective Dates: 11/29/2010, 04/13/2013,
04/02/2018