·State program
Kentucky Kinship Information, Navigation and Support (KY-KINS)
The KY-KINS Peer Support Program provides individualized, virtual, one-on-one Peer Support services to caregivers caring for relative or fictive kin children.
Questions that decide eligibility
GiveCare prepares the questions; the program makes the decision. Bring these to the call or the application:
- 01
Does the person receiving care live in Kentucky?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — grandparent or other relative — count for this program?
- 03
What are the current income and asset limits, and whose income counts?
Our record lists 150% of the federal poverty level — limits change, so confirm the current figures.
- 04
Is the person receiving care in the covered age range (null–18)?
- 05
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 06
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 07
Is there a caregiver-specific department, coordinator, or support line? Ask for it by name.
Many agencies have one that isn’t advertised on the website.
- 08
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 09
Is there a waitlist right now, and how long is it?
Who qualifies, in the source’s words
Where our record has a direct quote from the official source, here it is — otherwise, this is our best reading of the rule.
Income and asset limits
“annual incomes of no more than 150 percent of the federal poverty level”
prd.webapps.chfs.ky.gov →Age of the person receiving care
“grandchild no older than 18”
prd.webapps.chfs.ky.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“grandparent caregivers”
prd.webapps.chfs.ky.gov →