What is a Adoption Subsidy?

We are in the same place you are, waiting for a placement, so we aren't experts, but what our worker told us is that the adoption subsidy is paid at a certain amount per day until the child is 18. The amount can vary, with the most being the same as the foster care rate. At our meeting they told us this was $22/day. The purpose of the subsidy is to make it possible for families to more easily afford the special services and things these kids will need. That being said, our worker said we would have to fight to get the subsidy--often the state tries to argue that the child's special needs wil be covered entirely by the state insurance benefit or that they have no special financial needs. She also said under no circumstances should we accept a child without the subsidy, because down the road we might be looking at expensive co-pays for therapy and treatments and as long as we are receiving the subsidy, we can petition to have the amount raised, whereas if we agreed to adopt without subsidy, it would be very difficult to get one started later. If anyone else has different info, or better yet--actual experience--with this, please do share. Those of us just starting out don't wanna learn the hard way if we don't have to:)

Hi Mallory4! Thanks for your reply. We have also recently found out more about these subsidies since I posted my [font='Times New Roman']original[/font] question. We are now in the process of being interviewed for a child and would love more help of how to bring up the subsidy without sounding like you're money hungry because we would still adopt even if we received NOTHING!! But every little bit does counts! And yes, treatment and therapy will be very expensive in the long run. But again, we started out not knowing of the subsidies and we will be grateful for any little bit that we get!Thanks again!Mom2Crysta