Thursday, January 15, 2015

Parents of Delaware County, New York, charged with child neglect, beware

I know from a confidential source of parents steered into allowing adoption of their children by foster care parents on a promise that it will be an "open adoption" and that the parent's right to see the child will not be cut off, while the promise is not honored afterwards.

Please, also be aware of financial incentives to adopt children out of foster care:

money subsidies to adoptive parents and federal payouts to the agency that brought about the adoption from foster care.

Also, please, be aware that while Delaware County keeps the list of foster parents secret and resists FOIL requests on the subject on pretense of privacy, it appears that Delaware County favors local government officials for both foster care business and for adoptions, both of which presuppose payments to such people, whether they are qualified to be foster or adoptive parents or not.

Don't let your children be sold.

Parents of children on disability charged with child neglect, contact Medicare/Medicaid

I strongly suggest to parents whose children who are on SSI/SSD were taken away from them in child neglect proceedings in Delaware County, New York and put in foster care to check with Medicaid/Medicare what kind of accounting reports Delaware County is filing with that federal office.

Some children may be getting substantial benefits from Medicaid/Medicare, yet Delaware County Department of Social Services routinely takes parents to court for child support.  While that is any parent's obligation to provide for his or her child, the question is how the government money given to the Social Services by Medicare/Medicaid are used.

Are they properly used for the child's care?

Are they put aside for the child for the child's future use - college, for example?

Or are those funds pilfered by the Social Services or foster parents for needs that have nothing to do with the child's needs, including feeding non-profits where local county officials are on the Boards of.

Contact Medicaid/Mediare and ask questions about the use of your child's funds by Delaware County Department of Social Services.