DCFS Related
Medical benefits are also provided to the following groups:
Foster care/adoption care children from other states who live in Illinois and qualify for the All Kids Assist program. FCRCs do not handle these cases. The Bureau of Local Office Transaction and Support Service, Springfield, approves and maintains them.
Foster care/Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGap)/subsidized adoption assistance cases administered by DCFS.
The child of a youth in foster care through DCFS is eligible for Medicaid as a 'child of ward' (newborn up to age one) based on the mother's receipt of Medicaid through DCFS.