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9 employee's supervisor to ensure training is completed. Administrative Policy is found in section 1503 - Information Disclosure Policy.

Families have the right to ask for an agency conference or a fair hearing any time they do not agree with an action or decision on their case:

● An agency conference involves a meeting between adult family members, other appropriate family designated entities or individuals, the case manager, and the supervisor. In the conference, the action or issues they do not agree upon will be identified, a review of the case record will occur, rules and policy will be confirmed and explained, and alternative actions that could resolve the issues will be explored.

● A fair hearing will be conducted by an independent hearing officer through either in-person hearings with all parties meeting at the same place or virtually where the hearing officer conducts the hearing via a telephone conference call or virtual meeting. The family must ask for the hearing in writing within 90 days of the effective date of the case action with which they disagree, and a decision must be issued within 60 days from the date of the hearing. A family who requests a fair hearing within 10 days of the effective date of the action they disagree with may also request continued benefits while awaiting the outcome of the hearing. Fair hearings are not open to the public.

Family Employment Program for Two Parents (FEP-TP) Utah is using state only funds to pay for assistance for FEP-TP.

Utah Adoption Assistance Program The Utah Adoption Assistance Program provides help in getting a job, as well as cash payments, to a parent who has given birth to a child who has been placed for adoption. The program is available to any birth parent who was (or would have been) the one to take care of the child if the child had not been relinquished for adoption. Birth parents who have had their parental rights terminated by a court are not eligible for this program. A birth parent may not receive assistance from this program for more than 12 consecutive months from the relinquishment of a child. Month one, in the twelve month period, is the month of relinquishment. Payment for part of a month counts as a whole month. Months for which no payment was made also count toward this limit. Months that a customer receives an adoption assistance payment also count toward the 36 month FEP time limit. For a birth parent, who is receiving financial assistance for other children in the home and chooses to relinquish a child or children for adoption, a supplemental adoption assistance amount equal to the amount the household would have received had the parent kept the child will be added to the monthly amount. If the household is not eligible for FEP, the birth parent is not eligible for any TANF funded financial adoption assistance. In that instance, a birth parent may receive financial assistance from a state funded program.