3. What is the maximum amount a family may receive in non-recurring adoption expenses from your State? (Adoptive parents can receive reimbursement of certain approved, "one-time" adoption expenses incurred in the process of finalizing a special needs adoption.)
$1,000.00 per child
$2,000.00 per child, per finalized adoption
$2,000.00 per child
$1,500.00 per child
$400.00 per child
$800.00 per child
$750.00 per child
$2,000.00 per placement
Non-recurring Adoption Expenses are reasonable and necessary expenses, up to $2000, which are directly related to the legal adoption of a child and cannot be paid or reimbursed by another source.
To be eligible for non-recurring Adoption Expense reimbursement, the adoptive family must be adopting a child who meets the definition of special needs and have received prior approval for the expenses. Request for reimbursement must be made prior to the finalization of adoption
Examples of expenses covered are: adoption fees, court costs, and attorney fees (only when the adoption cannot be finalized by DFS).
$2,000.00 per child
$1,000.00 per child
Up to $1,500.00 per child.
$2,000.00 per child.
Up to $2,000.00 per child
Note: For cases where the child has not been in the custody of the Department of Health and Welfare, Idaho will not cover legal expenses to complete the termination of parental rights. Once parental rights are terminated and a child is legally free for adoption, legal expenses can be applied to the non-recurring adoption expenses reimbursement.
Up to $1,500.00 per child
Up to $1,500.00 per child
Payment for nonrecurring expenses is generally limited to a total of $500.00 per child for attorney fees, court costs and other related legal expenses. Nonrecurring expenses may be paid when the adoptive family has negotiated an Adoption Subsidy Agreement or an Agreement to Future Adoption Subsidy.
Up to $2,000 per child for the expenses associated with the pre-placement of each child and finalization of the adoption.
The maximum amount cannot exceed $1,000 per child. Examples of allowable expenses include: court costs, adoption fees, and attorney fees; cost of adoptive home studies, including health and psychological examinations; supervision of placement costs prior to adoption and transportation, food, and lodging for the child and adoptive parents when necessary to complete the adoptive placement of the adoption finalization process.
$1,000.00 per child
Note: Reimbursement of non-recurring expenses at this upper limit is not automatic. The reimbursement rate is negotiated based on the usual and customary amount paid for “one-time” adoption expenses in that specific region or area.
One-time expense, not to exceed $2,000 per child, incurred by a family in the process of adoption an eligible special needs child.
A lump sum maximum payment up to $2,000.00 per child
$400.00 per child
Up to $2,000 per child. The adoptive parent’s must claim expenses within two years of the child’s final order of adoption date.
$2,000.00
Up to $1,000.00
Up to $2,000.00 per child.
Up to $2,000.00 per child.
The Department of Health and Human Services may make a payment of up to two thousand dollars on behalf of a child with special needs after the legal completion of the child's adoption. The payment to the adoptive parents shall be a reimbursement for nonrecurring adoption expenses, including reasonable and necessary adoption fees, court costs, attorney's fees, and other expenses which are directly related to the legal adoption of the child, which are not incurred in violation of law, and which have not been reimbursed from any other source or funds.
Families may be reimbursed for fees related to finalization of the adoption up to a fixed amount. These fees may include:
- Legal costs-court filing fees and attorney fees not to exceed $250.00 per eligible child
- Agency fees paid for completion of home study; and/or
- Travel cost related to visiting the child prior to placement with the family
$2,000.00
Up to $2,000.00 per child. This amount includes a maximum of $500 for reimbursement of legal fees for each child. Reimbursement of non-recurring expenses may be made up to two years post adoption finalization, or, if the adoption is disrupted, within two years of the disruption, if the adoption is not finalized.
The amount of the payment made for non-recurring expenses of adoption is determined through agreement between the adopting parent(s) and the placement worker. Nonrecurring expenses cannot exceed $2,000 per child. At the time of the subsidy negotiation, the placement worker provides the family, both verbally and in writing, with the following information about the non-recurring expenses of adoption:
- Non-recurring adoption expenses include reasonable and necessary adoption fees, court costs, attorney fees and other expenses, which are directly related to the adoption of a child with special needs, which have not been reimbursed from other sources
- Costs may include the adoption study, including health and psychological examination, supervision of the placement prior to adoption, transportation and the reasonable costs of lodging and food for the child and/or the adoptive parents when necessary to complete the placement or adoption process
- When siblings are placed and adopted, each child is treated as an individual with separate reimbursement
- For interstate placements, the state that enters into an adoption subsidy agreement is responsible for paying the non-recurring adoption expenses of the child
- The family provides the placement worker original receipts and odometer readings that are forwarded to the subsidy specialist in order to secure reimbursement for pre-placement expenses
$2,000.00 per child
$2,000.00 per child
$2,000.00 per child
$1,000 per child
$1,200.00 per child for documented actual expenses.
$2,000 per child which the Department will pay to an adoptive family to assist with the reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in legally finalizing the adoption.
$2000.00 per child
$400.00 per child
$1500.00
$1,500.00 per child
$1,500.00 per child
$1,200.00 per child
$2, 000.00
$2,000.00 per child
The total amount of reimbursement for non-recurring expenses is based on actual cost and can not exceed $2,000.00 per child per placement.
$1, 500.00
The maximum allowable adoption assistance payment is currently $600 per month for children adopted after July 1, 2003 (which is the same rate as the DHHR family foster care maintenance rate).
$2,000.00 per child
$2,000.00