234.37 Department may establish accounts for certain children.
The department of human services is authorized to establish an account in the name of any child committed to the director of human services or the director’s designee, or whose legal custody has been transferred to the department, or who is voluntarily placed in foster care pursuant to section 234.35. Any money which the child receives from the United States government or any private source shall be placed in the child’s account, unless a guardian of the child’s property has been appointed and demands the money, in which case it shall be paid to the guardian. The account shall be maintained by the department as trustee for the child in an interest-bearing account at a reputable bank or savings association, except that if the child is residing at an institution administered by the department a limited amount of the child’s funds may be maintained in a separate account, which need not be interest bearing, in the child’s name at the institution. Any money held in an account in the child’s name or in trust for the child under this section may be used, at the discretion of the department and subject to restrictions lawfully imposed by the United States government or other source from which the child receives the funds, for the purchase of personal incidentals, desires and comforts of the child. All of the money held for a child by the department under this section and not used in the child’s behalf as authorized by law shall be promptly paid to the child or the child’s parent or legal guardian upon termination of the commitment of the child to the director or the director’s designee, or upon transfer or cessation of legal custody of the child by the department.
[C75, 77, 79, 81, §234.37]
2012 Acts, ch 1017, §58
Referred to in §233A.10
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 234 - CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES
Section 234.2 - Division created.
Section 234.3 - Child welfare advisory committee.
Section 234.4 - Education of children in departmental programs.
Section 234.6 - Powers and duties of the administrator.
Section 234.7 - Department duties.
Section 234.8 - Fees for child welfare services.
Section 234.12 - Department to provide food programs.
Section 234.12A - Electronic benefits transfer program.
Section 234.13 - Fraudulent practices relating to food programs.
Section 234.14 - Federal grants.
Section 234.21 - Services to be offered.
Section 234.22 - Extent of services.
Section 234.23 - Charge for services.
Section 234.24 - Services may be refused.
Section 234.25 - Language to be used.
Section 234.26 - Construction.
Section 234.28 - Obscenity laws not applicable.
Section 234.35 - When state to pay foster care costs.
Section 234.37 - Department may establish accounts for certain children.
Section 234.38 - Foster care reimbursement rates.
Section 234.39 - Responsibility for cost of services.
Section 234.40 - Corporal punishment.
Section 234.41 - Tort actions.
Section 234.42 - Foster care review committees — confidentiality.
Section 234.45 - Iowa marriage initiative grant fund.