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XfireZ51 · 03-04-2011

Q: Does Illinois pay a grandmother $1,500 per month per child to be the foster parent to her eight grandchildren?
A: No. State officials have no record of such a case, and state law would not allow it. This second-hand story spread by a Danville urologist isn?t true.
FULL QUESTION
Below is an e-mail that has circulated in the past few weeks. I would like to determine what, if any, of these assertions are true.
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."
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FULL ANSWER
The e-mail was written by Dr. Sebastian J. Ciancio, a urologist who practices in Danville, Ill. He told us he wrote it sometime in July to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh based on a second-hand report from an emergency-room physician he declined to name. "I really only know what the patient told the ER physician as reported to me through that physician," Ciancio said in an e-mail to us. We asked to speak with the doctor, and Ciancio told us he passed along our request. But we have not heard from this physician.
In his e-mail to Limbaugh, Ciancio relays the story of a grandmother in Illinois who he claims is the foster parent to her eight grandchildren and receives $1,500 per child per month for a total of $144,000 a year. The story is simply false. Illinois Department of Children and Family Services spokesman Jimmie Whitelow told us that no such case exists in the state?s system.
Whitelow, Dec. 7: Under the parameters under which he made the assertion, the Department has no such case. We don?t have a family like that. We don?t have anything that looks remotely like what he described.
Foster Care Payments
First, the e-mail makes the false claim that a foster parent ?receives $1,500 per child per month in Illinois.? That?s not true. No individual in Illinois can receive that much money per child. In the case of a grandmother serving as a foster parent to her grandchildren, Whitelow said that situation would be classified as "relative home care." The grandmother could be unlicensed or licensed, but both payment rates are significantly below $1,500.
The typical monthly payment rates for licensed relative home care range from $384 to $471, depending on the age of the child. The monthly payment rates for unlicensed relative home care range from $286 to $310, depending on the county. This money includes board, clothing and allowance. Foster parents may also receive ?one-time only payments to assist the foster parent with fees that may be imposed,? Whitelow explained. Such fees could be for school supplies ($50 per year) or camp fees ($260.35 maximum).
This DCFS chart shows the monthly payment rates for licensed relative home care:

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http://factcheck.org/2010/12/fostering-a-fortune/
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Kat H.

2 months ago
If she was caring for more then 1 child it could equal up to $1500 or more a month...

03-04-2011	#2
XfireZ51 Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chicagoland, IL Posts: 9,685	Re: The bread winner!!! Q: Does Illinois pay a grandmother $1,500 per month per child to be the foster parent to her eight grandchildren? A: No. State officials have no record of such a case, and state law would not allow it. This second-hand story spread by a Danville urologist isn?t true. FULL QUESTION Below is an e-mail that has circulated in the past few weeks. I would like to determine what, if any, of these assertions are true. 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." ⬐ Click to expand/collapse the full text ⬏ * FULL ANSWER The e-mail was written by Dr. Sebastian J. Ciancio, a urologist who practices in Danville, Ill. He told us he wrote it sometime in July to conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh based on a second-hand report from an emergency-room physician he declined to name. "I really only know what the patient told the ER physician as reported to me through that physician," Ciancio said in an e-mail to us. We asked to speak with the doctor, and Ciancio told us he passed along our request. But we have not heard from this physician. In his e-mail to Limbaugh, Ciancio relays the story of a grandmother in Illinois who he claims is the foster parent to her eight grandchildren and receives $1,500 per child per month for a total of $144,000 a year. The story is simply false. Illinois Department of Children and Family Services spokesman Jimmie Whitelow told us that no such case exists in the state?s system. Whitelow, Dec. 7: Under the parameters under which he made the assertion, the Department has no such case. We don?t have a family like that. We don?t have anything that looks remotely like what he described. Foster Care Payments First, the e-mail makes the false claim that a foster parent ?receives $1,500 per child per month in Illinois.? That?s not true. No individual in Illinois can receive that much money per child. In the case of a grandmother serving as a foster parent to her grandchildren, Whitelow said that situation would be classified as "relative home care." The grandmother could be unlicensed or licensed, but both payment rates are significantly below $1,500. The typical monthly payment rates for licensed relative home care range from $384 to $471, depending on the age of the child. The monthly payment rates for unlicensed relative home care range from $286 to $310, depending on the county. This money includes board, clothing and allowance. Foster parents may also receive ?one-time only payments to assist the foster parent with fees that may be imposed,? Whitelow explained. Such fees could be for school supplies ($50 per year) or camp fees ($260.35 maximum). This DCFS chart shows the monthly payment rates for licensed relative home care: * http://factcheck.org/2010/12/fostering-a-fortune/ *send green star Kat H. 2 months ago If she was caring for more then 1 child it could equal up to $1500 or more a month...