Foster care pay rate on state budget chopping block - Longview News-Journal: Local News
AUSTIN (AP) — Proposed budget cuts could so severely underfund the Department of Family and Protective Services that hundreds of foster children would be forced to live in the agency’s offices, a department official told Texas lawmakers Tuesday.
The draft budget being considered in the Senate could result in a situation seen four years ago when 611 foster children lived in offices instead of homes, Department Commissioner Anne Heiligenstein told members of the Senate Finance Committee.
The Senate’s proposed budget reduces the rate that foster care providers are reimbursed and doesn’t fund inevitable caseload growth, which Heiligenstein expects will affect the department’s ability to find homes for foster children.
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In Memory of my Loving Husband, William F. Knightly Jr. Murdered by ILLEGAL Palliative Care at a Nashua, NH Hospital
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