Re: Foster Care as a Job

"Greegor" <Greegor47@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sep 13, 3:51 pm, "Ron" <apositivepl...@netscape.net> wrote:
> "Greegor" <Greego...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sep 11, 11:33 pm, Dan Sullivan <dsull...@optonline.net> wrote:
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> > On Sep 12, 12:24 am, "Ron" <apositivepl...@netscape.net>
wrote:
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> > > "Dan Sullivan" <dsull...@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> > >news:93b4e926-104b-4b6e-8713-e74fd1bc04b1@i76g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> > > On Sep 11, 9:46 pm, Greegor <Greego...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > Years ago a foster contractor was quoted
> > > > as saying to others that if they just got
> > > > one more foster kid they could quit their job.
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> > > Could quit?
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> > > Or would need to quit?
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> > > > The kid you described (requiring a health aide)
> > > > would be categorized as "special needs" which
> > > > makes it easier to get housing grants to build
> > > > on another room, and many other benefits.
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> > > Did these people get housing grants?
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> > > And if so, how much?
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> > > > Fosters are insured like a business and
> > > > granted vacation relief like a business.
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> > > What kind of insurance did being foster parents get these people?
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> > > Did these people get vacation relief?
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> > > And specifically what was it?
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> > > > Told you so.
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> > > You didn't tell us anything.
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> > > Except mere speculation and unfounded rumors.
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> > > ***
> > > Wow gregg, I need to find out about all this. Just where would I go to
> > > get
> > > one of those grants there gregg? I could use an extra room on the old
> > > shack
> > > here, and if I could get some government agency or charitable concern
> > > to
> > > help pay for it, well that would be the cats whiskers! While we are at
> > > it,
> > > maybe you can tell me where I can find a state or region where $222
> > > will
> > > provide for all the needs of a child every month. Housing, heat,
> > > electricity, food, water, you know, all the little things that make
> > > life
> > > livable.
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> > You could move to Iowa and grag could show you all the landlords he
> > screwed out of the rent!!!
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> Why do you only get $222 Ron?
> Other states pay fosters considerably more.
> Nebraska is ripping you off!
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> ***
> Ya know gregg, I have been telling you the amount that Nebraska reimburses
> now for what, 10 years? And you just now clue in?
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> Tell Dan about how respite care is provided
> so you can take a vacation.
>
> ***
> Can do. I find the respite provider myself, get it priced, and pay for it
> out of the monthly reimbursement that the state gives me. I have paid as
> much as $300 for a single weekend and as little as $50.

Ron, Most states PAY or provide free respite care
to fosters.  It does NOT come out of your stipend.
Is Nebraska ripping you off, Ron?

> Tell him the state has malpractice insurance
> set up on you.
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> ***
> If they do they dont tell me about it.
> I pay for my own insurance gregg,
> as I said before. Its not all that
> costly, but then again I dont get
> reimbursed for it.

Your insurance covers the foster kids?
How is that, Ron?

You didn't KNOW about the state coverage
for malpractice??   LOL

Ask them, Ron!

They like hearing that question!   LOL

***
Wow gregg, you are a wealth of information!  What a deep well of incorrect
data you are!  I am so glad that we have your depth and breadth of wisdom
and knowledge here, without which of course we could all be both rich and
famous.

Ron
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