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jab40.
The agency that we go through only gave us 50 dollars for emergency clothing when our foster child came. With him he only had 2 pair of jeans (one which didnt fit him), a pair of sweat pants, one long sleeve shirt, and a short sleeve shirt, and two pair of socks. And we got him in the middle of June. You are not automatically given this emergency fund, when the child comes you must fill out what clothing he has then it has to be approved. Each month out of the money that you are paid you must buy 50 dollars in clothes (along with other stuff you must provide and have receipts for everything you buy. Of course you are not reimbursed for the month until the end of the next month. At the end of the each month you must turn in all reciepts ( which must be new clothes and not from second hand stores). Plus when the child leaves your home you must fill out what clothes leaves your home. Doing it this way, I guess they are making sure that the child leaves with what he brings and what is bought for him.