When an adopted child is in residential therapeutic care through the post adoption services program, DFPS may allow the family to keep up to $150 of its monthly adoption assistance to pay for the following, rather than applying the full assistance payment to the child's residential care:
• clothing the child, and
• traveling to visit the child at the residential care facility.
See:
8412.6 Residential Therapeutic Care
Setting a Payment Ceiling
When CPS's payments for post adoption services are supplemented with nonprogram funds, the total amount paid from all sources cannot exceed the amount that DFPS would pay if nonprogram funds were not involved.
For example, when an adopted child receives residential therapeutic care as specified in Post adoption 8410.16, the department subtracts the nonprogram funds available for the child's residential care from the authorized payment rate for the child's billing service level, then pays the difference with post adoption-services funds.
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