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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: JohnnyReb on November 20, 2010, 05:58:19 AM
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Is there anyone near Chicago that can verify the dollar amounts in this email? Around here a foster child is $800 a month and the added benefits.
I don't know if this is fact or fiction but it sounds so screwy I'd just about have to believe it.
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Subject: Doin' it the Chicago Way!!!
Bread winner with your tax dollars - and, it's getting worse!!!
Bread Winner....
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Bread Winner...Making Babies!
I was speaking to an emergency room physician this morning. He told me that a woman in her 20s came to the ER with her 8th pregnancy. She stated, "my momma told me that I am the breadwinner for the family." He asked her to explain. She said that she can make babies and babies get money for the family. The scam goes like this: The grandma calls the Department of Child and Family Services and states that the unemployed daughter is not capable of caring for these children. DCFS agrees and states that the child or children will need to go to foster care.
The grandma then volunteers to be the foster parent, and thus receives a check for $1500 per child per month in Illinois. Total yearly income: $144,000 tax-free, not to mention free healthcare (Medicaid) plus a monthly card entitling her to free groceries, etc, and a voucher for 250 free cell phone minutes per month. This does not even include WIC and other welfare programs. Indeed, grandma was correct in that her fertile daughter is the "breadwinner" for the family.
This is how the ruling class spends your tax dollars.
Sebastian J. Ciancio, M.D. Urologist, Danville Polyclinic, LTD
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http://childcareillinois.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/illinois-house-approves-berrios-bill-to-boost-foster-parent-reimbursement-by-one-time-24-million-grant-schoenberg-to-lead-effort-in-senate/
Illinois House Approves Berrios Bill to Boost Foster Parent Reimbursement by One-Time $24 Million Grant; Schoenberg Senate Sponsor
(Springfield, IL) – The Illinois House on Tuesday endorsed a one-time $24 million grant to reimburse foster parents for increased expenses related to caring for the state’s abused and neglected children.
The Illinois House voted 76-40 to include the money in the state’s new Fiscal Year 2010 budget.
“Foster parents have had only two increases in eight years to pay expenses to feed, clothe, house, and transport foster children and inflation has deeply eroded the value of the state reimbursement,†said Marge Berglind, the President and CEO of the Child Care Association of Illinois, the bill’s chief supporter.
Berglind noted, on average, an Illinois foster parent spends $703 per month—of that $281 comes out of the foster parent’s pocket.
A national report on foster parent under-funding released two years ago by two national organizations and the University of Maryland said Illinois’
Deputy Majority Leader Lou Lang
average rates (for children 2, 9, and 16) were $380, $422, and $458 per month and they needed to be raised to $661, $757, and $830 to meet actual costs.(more at link)
Not even close to $1500 per kid.
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Thanks mamacags...looks like we're even more liberal than Chicago.
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Then, these same people get over to Minnesota and establish a residence there, collecting welfare from that state AND from Illinois.... seen it....