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16165
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North Carolina's aging population, those over the age of 65, has increased dramatically. Between 1980 and 1990, the state's elderly population grew 33 percent. This bulletin traces the growth of programs for the elderly and discusses the responsibilities of the federal, state, and local governments with respect to the administration and financing of aging programs in the state.
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16166
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A range of legislative proposals affecting the state's senior citizens was recommended to, and considered by, the 1995 General Assembly. These included legislation affecting adult care homes and nursing homes and abuse and neglect of the elderly.
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16167
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Saxon describes the state's new criminal statute (N.C. Gen. Stat. 14-32.3) regarding the abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled or elder adults by caretakers; the prosecution of adult abuse, exploitation, and neglect under other criminal statutes; and the relationship between the criminal statutes and the state's adult protective services law.
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16168
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This bulletin summarizes legislation affecting senior citizens and government programs for the elderly enacted by the General Assembly during the 1996 Regular Session and the Second Extra Session if 1996.
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16169
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Saxon discusses the \"estate recovery\" provisions of the federal Medicaid law, the law and rules implementing the Medicaid estate recovery program in North Carolina, and the impact of the Medicaid estate recovery program on elderly or disabled Medicaid recipients in the state.
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16174
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This bulletin discusses the often-confusing interplay between North Carolina's laws regarding spousal support and responsibility and the provisions of the federal Medicaid statute that apply to income and assets of a married couple when one spouse is a nursing home patient and applies for Medicaid payment for nursing home care while the other spouse continues to live in the community.
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16175
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This bulletin summarizes the provisions of several federal and state laws, including the Social Security Act, the federal Privacy Act, the State Privacy Act, and the newly-enacted Identify Theft Protection Act of 2005, governing the collection, use, or disclosure of SSN's by state and county social service agencies.
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16176
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This bulletin discusses the federal and state laws that govern Medicaid \"liens\" on personal injury judgments and settlements payable to Medicaid recipients, the North Carolina Supreme Court's June 30, 2006 decision in Ezell v. Grace Hospital, and the U.S. Supreme Court's May 1, 2006, decision in Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services v. Ahlborn.
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16177
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This bulletin summarizes the legal principles that govern the liability of state and county social services agencies, officials, and employees in lawsuits brought under North Carolina's tort law and under 42 U.S.C. 1983.
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19810
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This bulletin describes the evolution of North Carolina's social services system and discusses responsibilities of the federal government, the state, and counties with respect to the administration and financing of social services programs.
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19847
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Under North Carolina law, a county social services board member may be removed from office during his or her term by the same body that appointed the individual to the social services board. However, the \"appointing authority\" must have \"good cause\" to remove a social services board member from the board during his or her term and must give the board member notice of the grounds for the removal, as well as an opportunity to be heard on the issue of removal.
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19848
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The authors review laws passed in the areas listed in the title. These include abortion funding, child support and paternity, child abuse, delinquency, and monitoring of rest homes.
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19850
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The third in a series of Social Services Law Bulletins that will address confidentiality and social services. This bulletin examines what it means to say that information is confidential. It addresses such issues as whether information may never be disclosed or if there are exceptions that allow or require disclosure of confidential information and under what circumstances social services agencies may obtain confidential information from other agencies or individuals.
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19851
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The fourth in a series of Social Services Law Bulletins that will address confidentiality and social services. This bulletin is an annotated index to federal and state confidentiality rules for state and local social services agencies. The index identifies and briefly summarizes many of the federal and state statutes and regulations that govern the use, protection, disclosure, and acquisition of confidential information by social services agencies.
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19852
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The fifth in a series of Social Services Law Bulletins that will address confidentiality and social services. This bulletin summarizes the HIPAA privacy rule and discusses its potential impact on county social services departments and the programs they administer.
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