PROGRAM INSTRUCTION

ACF-ACYF-CB-PI-24-09
Approval of a Revised Form for Reporting Financial Data on the Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance, Kinship Navigator and Prevention Services Programs

The Children’s Bureau has issued Program Instruction ACF-ACYF-CB-PI-24-09 announcing approval of a revised Form CB-496 for reporting financial data on the title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, Guardianship Assistance, Kinship Navigator and Prevention Services Programs. 

This updated version of the CB-496 Title IV-E Programs Quarterly Financial Report is effective for FFY 2025 financial reporting. The changes to the CB-496 include:

• a breakout of certain costs and caseload data for children in title IV-E “extended foster care,” which covers older youth for whom program eligibility is based on use of the optional title IV-E Plan provision to extend the definition of “child” beyond the age of 18;
• a breakout of caseload data for children served under Tribal-State title IV-E agreements;
• revisions to title IV-E demonstration project and post-demonstration cost reporting, due to the termination of title IV-E demonstration projects and related provisions; and
• separate reporting of certain costs paid through title IV-E agreements between Tribes and Title IV-E agencies under the title IV-E prevention program.

The Children’s Bureau expects that the new version of the CB-496 will be available for use by title IV-E agencies in the OnLine Data Collection (OLDC) system at the end of January 2025, when reports for the first quarter of FFY 2025 will be due.

Please direct any questions to Children’s Bureau Regional Program Managers.

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