OAR 813-245-0100: Temporary rule language in effect until 01/27/2027. Administrative Review by Grantee

(1) Grantees must establish in writing a process satisfactory to OHCS that enables all potentially eligible households requesting or receiving LTRA services to contest a determination by the grantee or its subrecipients that either denies, limits, terminates, or modifies LTRA services. (2) The policy must provide that a household may request an administrative review or fair hearing of a grantee’s or its subrecipients’ contested action (as described in subsection (1) above). The grantee must allow a minimum of 30 days from the time of contested action or the aggrieved household’s discovery of such action for an aggrieved household to request a review or hearing. Any dispute between the household and the grantee or subrecipient over the aggrieved household’s discovery period will be resolved by OHCS, in its sole discretion. (3) The grantee must inform OHCS and the aggrieved household in writing of any final administrative review determination made by the grantee, and the basis for same, within 10 days of such final determination. (4) A household remaining aggrieved after such review or hearing of a contested action may request administrative review of the grantee’s decision by OHCS (see OAR 813-245-0090).