Question about Stipend

Once the adoption is finalized CPS can not continue to collect the SS Survivor benefit, you should be able to collect that until she is 18 or out of high school. If there is a disability beyond 18 she might be eligible to continue as a disabled child indefinitely. Make sure you go to SS with your adoption papers and ask to be payee. Actually you could probably be made payee now. The only reason the state can reimburse themselves is because they are payee. If anyone is payee they can not bill. But you might not want to rock the boat while the subsidy is in question.