Stop Income Testing for Supports for Permanency

Very disappointed in how this government is Not supporting children

RA’s are asking for 62% increase foster parents should get the same including SFP.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Please make decision after proper discourse. Going forward investment in next generation shud be more not less.

I'm a former foster parent and I know that adoption is difficult enough without income testing. Why would you make it harder for loving people to become patents?

1 year ago Featured

I agree! Many families made life altering decisions to take on financial responsibility and legal permanency for these children- these decisions were made with the knowledge and promise that these funds would be in place until they’re 18 years old.

Foster parent hoping to be adoptive parent soon

I don’t feel this is fair to the families that help these children

We have two adopted young children and cannot believe that you would cut funding for adoptive families. This support for permanency is imperative to assist families with the extraordinary costs associated with special needs kids. We have spent years doing trauma counseling and attachment therapy with our kids, go out of our way to maintain cultural ties and already had that stripped from our support because our daughters not indigenous enough but was indigenous enough to take years to adopt! We took on our daughter’s bio half sister and she has even more needs that has forced us to hire aides and therapists that don’t even start to meet her complex needs. Adoptive families are taking on wards of the government and should be supported as much as possible so that government adoption remains an attractive way to grown a family. Extra financial needs we endure day to day include replacing destroyed property, clothing, furniture… our daughters gave FASD, adhd, autism, depression and are incapable of understanding consequences. Daily routines are never followed and we are absolutely overwhelmed as their parents. They run away, have had police involvement and the school issues are daily and taxing. I don’t think they will ever leave our home and live independently so we have to save for their disabled futures. They were turned down for universal life insurance due to all of their disabilities so the trauma they endured in foster care and in utero has affected every aspect of their lives. You absolutely must rethink this decision as you will be setting many families (regardless of their income level) up for further stressors which is simply not fair and not safe. Adoption is already the most stressful thing I’ve experienced in life and raising these kids takes all of my energy to attend to their complex needs that will only get more intense as they grow. In addition to parenting adopted kids, we are struggling to navigate birth parents who become additional children who ove

Consultation with stakeholders is a must as if this is how the current government is trying to balance their books, this is definitely not the way to go about it - this funding is necessary and depended upon by those parents who took on permanency is good faith. Find another way to save money.

As stated, the cap may seem like a large amount but with the increased cost of living and the highly intense needs of these children putting a cap on is extremely unfair. My family, for example, we never planned to take guardianship of 4 bonus children. We never planned to take PG at all actually, but here we are with 4 PG children, and we are contemplating taking PG of our 5th. We do not make anything near the cap, but if we did this would be a deciding factor on our 5th PG. We have 2 biological adult children and we planned financially for raising them. As I said we had no plans on this huge family. We are very blessed, and our bonus children are also to have SFP. Without it we never would have been able to do this. If you take this away from families with higher income, I really worry that you will be taking away the chance of a forever home for some of the children in care. It is not a money maker, it is literally child support for children we took on but never planned to have!

Life long UC voter … if this goes through that will end !

Ask people to sign. Say this affects your family and how this will affect other children who are desperately waiting for permanency.

When it comes to supporting vulnerable children, funding should be raised not cut. We’re talking about children with high needs, who need expensive equipment that isn’t always covered. And a lot of these needs will last a life time. It’s important to recognize that families are taking on the selfless act of raising these children, that otherwise would be left in care. In fact by making these cuts you’re saying you’d rather these children stay in care.

Careless decision making, and unable to show stats on how much will actually be saved.

Stop this attack on adoptive families

I'm an Adoptive parent. This will effect my kids

Listen to your caregivers !

As per my email sent.

As per my email sent to all stakeholders