·State program
Permanency Care Assistance Program
Permanency Care Assistance Program provides monthly payments of $400-$545 to relatives and fictive kin who permanently care for children in managing conservatorship, continuing until children turn 18 or 21.
What you get
Information, Services, as recorded:
- Monthly payments are $400 - $545 per month, depending on each child's needs
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 Texas?
Residency is usually the first thing a program checks.
- 02
Does your relationship to the person — grandparent, other relative, or non relative — count for this program?
- 03
Is the person receiving care in the covered age range (16–null)?
- 04
Does the VA disability rating meet the program’s minimum (our record lists null%)?
- 05
Do the work hours meet the minimum (our record lists null hours)?
- 06
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.
- 07
What documents do you need from us to start an application?
- 08
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.
Age of the person receiving care
“PCA benefits continue until children turn 18 or 21 if the child is 16 years old or older when adopted.”
dfps.texas.gov →Minimum VA disability rating
Minimum VA disability rating: null%.
Work hours
Minimum work hours: null.
Relationship to the person receiving care
“kinship caregivers are relatives such as aunts, uncles, or grandparents”
dfps.texas.gov →
How to apply
- 01
Apply to become foster parents; care for the child as foster parents for at least six months; negotiate and sign a Permanency Care Agreement; go to court to get legal custody of the child