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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 393843" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>That's another thing too - the money. I'm not sure how much it is here now, but it's not much. They get a clothing allowance twice a year and their medical, dental and counseling is paid, but the monthly stipend is not much at all and a lot of people end up dipping into their own funds to buy those extras. The clothing allowance wasn't much either when you figure the costs of things like winter coats and shoes. Here the amount goes up with the age of the child but when I was going to do it, the monthly amount allotted for a teenager was just about the same as what I had been getting in child support for my son, and child support was based on the idea that it was <em>half</em> the amount to support him and that I was paying the other half. There were several foster families that had formed a food co-op for groceries, etc. It always makes me mad when people think that foster parents actually make money off of it - they don't, and here you have to prove that you have sufficient income to support your own family because it's forbidden to use any of the fostering money for your own use.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 393843, member: 1883"] That's another thing too - the money. I'm not sure how much it is here now, but it's not much. They get a clothing allowance twice a year and their medical, dental and counseling is paid, but the monthly stipend is not much at all and a lot of people end up dipping into their own funds to buy those extras. The clothing allowance wasn't much either when you figure the costs of things like winter coats and shoes. Here the amount goes up with the age of the child but when I was going to do it, the monthly amount allotted for a teenager was just about the same as what I had been getting in child support for my son, and child support was based on the idea that it was [I]half[/I] the amount to support him and that I was paying the other half. There were several foster families that had formed a food co-op for groceries, etc. It always makes me mad when people think that foster parents actually make money off of it - they don't, and here you have to prove that you have sufficient income to support your own family because it's forbidden to use any of the fostering money for your own use. [/QUOTE]
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