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This message was originally posted by christey.

my husband and I have 2 children of our own and are foster parenting his sisters 3 kids for 1 year now and are thinking of adopting them,the mother has terminated her rights and the caseworkers are termenating all the fathers rigts this month so legaly they will be able to be adopted by the end of september but we still have all the home studies to do, anyway my question is what is the adoption subsidy we will be getting,everyone keeps telling us we will continue getting finacial support for these kids but no one will tell us how what or what they are.finacialy we cant suppot these kids on our own and all the caseworkers know that but we realy want to keep these kids forever we love them with all our heatrs as if they were our own.we are wiling to do long term foster care if needed but again the caseworkers want to close this case and let us adopt.so what kind of support can we get and is there somewhere that i can look up what kind of subsidys we can get and what are the regulations? thank you very much christey

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This message was originally posted by Live2shop.

Dear Christy,

The adoption subsidies vary by state, I think anyway. I can tell you what Washington State subsidies are if that will help you. The basic adoption subsidy is about 325.00 and has a special rate in addition to that for special needs or higher care children that would be around 150.00. So according to their needs EACH child will get anywhere from 325.00-475.00. There are additional subsidies if you have a greater qualifying expense. They also continue medical, child care if both parents are full-time employed, and future counseling. I am adopting two of my cousins children. I was getting TANF (which is welfare) and I was getting about 440.00 for both of them. Then I got my foster license because I wanted more children. I liked having little ones around again. To my surprise the payments increased to 366.00 for EACH child right away. Then they assesed them both to be higher needs children at a rate of 1080.00 per month for both children. Not only could I take care of them financially, my own children did not have to give up a thing. That was my main concern.

There are more financial benefits for taking care of foster children too. Our state offers a medical program and we only pay 20.00 a month for our medical insurance. Our tax return has increased dramatically. And much more so please don't worry about the financial aspect of it. I am sure your state offers similiar financial support. It might be to your benefit on 3 children. I wish you all the luck and please don't hesitate to ask me anything.

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This message was originally posted by Live2shop.

These sites might be of some help and give you numbers to call for questions:

http://aaicama.aphsa.org/statepages/nevada.html

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/register/...R067-99V2.html

http://www.leg.state.nv.us/register/...R056-02IN.html

On this website, check out the NAC's numbers: 127.210-127.360
http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/NAC-127.html

I hope these sites help answer your questions.