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Hi folks I used to post on here all the time but got too busy and wandered away. I am now in need of an answer from you smart folks again.
Our foster kids are about to start over night visits. I thought I had read before that we still get paid for the whole month even for the days they are not in our home but their cw when asked today said we can only bill the state for the days they sleep in our home. She is a fabulous cw and I love her to pieces but she often gets info wrong. So anyone know what the correct answer is?
I'm thinking maybe it used to be you got paid for the whole month but it is another one of those budget cut things and now we only get for the nights they sleep here. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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I would think that you can only bill the nites they sleep in your home.. Just like if they went to respite- you wouldn't get paid for the nites they were away. I asked DH & he agrees, this is what we were told in training when we learned to fill out the paperwork to start billing the state.. Maybe someone else will have another opinion but that's what I'd do.
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When our fd did overnight visits, we were still paid for the whole month. That was before we did our own invoices. Also, when we had to place a baby in respite, we were still paid for the entire month and had to pay the respite provider ourselves.
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I really think it is up to your state. When we had overnights with our foster son they still paid us those nights because he still had a one of our spots in our house. They couldn't have another child taking his spot for those few days. I would ask your licen. worker?
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When our kids did overnights and we asked the same question we got the same answer. On the other hand we were told that they are still in our care at that time and the beds could not be filled so it should be a billable night. We didn't invoice for the nights which makes doing the invoice a lot of fun breaking up the dates.
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Thanks...I'll jot off an email to him today. Heck it could even be a county to county difference who knows.
I know when we got licensed they said paid for the whole month didn't matter but that was before we started having to invoice the state.
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You should be paid for the child regardless of whether he's physically in your home that night.
He's still taking an bed - they're not going to give you another FC that bed for the night. So he's still technically occupying it.
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We bill for the whole month, as long as they are our placement, even if they spend a couple nights at respite or whatever.
We settle up with the respite providers ourselves.
The only time we do not bill the state for the child is when the child officially is moved out of our home.
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Finally got the confirmation email. No one knew the answer it kept going higher up the chain. Got the email today from
cw said yes you all are correct (as usual) we do bill until they are officially returned home full time. Good to know if I had listened to her we would have been out 4 nights a week of money that we are allowed to have. That money will go along way in helping us prepare for the new kids once these go home.
Thanks again for you all being so smart!
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