NYS Foster Care Rate Info

Foster Care boarding home rates differ significantly in New York’s 58 social services districts as each local district (LDSS) or county is allowed to set its own rates. The state only determines the maximum amounts it will reimburse to the local districts; there is no minimum! NYSCCC advocates that NYS OCFS establish consistent statewide minimum board rates for all local districts, commensurate with actual costs, and offers the following information to assist NYS foster care advocates and families in advocating for local changes that achieve increased consistency and fairness in statewide rates.

• Local LDSS/County Specific Foster Boarding Home Rates – As of October 2009
• Current Foster Care and Group Home Rates Paid to Voluntary Agencies (pdf)
• 2011/2012 NYS Maximum Reimbursement Rate Chart (pdf)
• 11-OCFS-ADM-13 – Maximum Board Rates (pdf)
• NYS Guidelines for Clothing Allowances
• NYS Guidelines Governing Eligibility for Special/Exceptional Rates
• Excerpt from OCFS Program Manual: Standards of Payment (pdf)
• 08-OCFS ADM-03 Required Notice to Foster Parent of Level of Care and Payment (pdf)
• Form LDSS 7018 for Notification of Foster Care Level of Care and  Payment (pdf)
• USDA reports on Expenditures on Children by Families
• Foster Care Maintenance Payments: State to State Comparisons (pdf)
• NYSCCC Position On NYS Boarding Home Rates
• Hitting the M.A.R.C.: Establishing Foster Care Minimum Adequate Rates for Children
• NYSCCC Takes Legal Action on Behalf of NYS Foster Parents! – August, 2010
  

Last modified: January 27, 2012

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