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2023 New York State Foster Care Boarding Rates Increase Update

for Payment to Foster Parents and for Adoption Subsidies**

Per 23-OCFS-ADM-10:

The updated rates above are effective April 1, 2023 and include and the state fiscal year (SFY) 2023-24 Legislative cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) of 4.0%.

Starting on 7-1-23, every foster family in NYS should be getting that full board rate amount starting in the check that gets mailed out in the beginning of August. Families should expect to see additional payments retroactively dating back to 4-1-23.

With this final increase, all counties in the state will now be employing the standard base rate. Previous to the Coalition’s lawsuit against the state, every county had different rates set by their local budgets., Upstate counties had additional year, until 7-1-23, to bring their rates up the new standard upstate rate.

*Metro includes the following districts: NYC, Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester counties and must pay the new standard rate right away.
**SEE 21-OCFS-ADM-06 and 21-OCFS-ADM-24 for previous linkage between increases in foster care stipends
2023 New York State Foster Care Boarding Rates Updated: Payment to Foster Parents and for Adoption Subsidies

 

DOWNLOAD THE 2023 RATE CHART FACTSHEET HERE

 

We’re Still Watching and Paying Attention!

The Coalition will be tracking the progress and monitoring the role out of the Foster Care boarding rate increases. As various communications from the local county department of social services and the individual foster care agencies are released with information about the increases and whatever other changes to the programs, we will collect what is available and share here.

If you have received any official communications from your local DSS or agency, please pass them on to us at info@affcny.org. Please put “Subsidy Rates” in the subject matter.

We thank you for your help in advance!

Click on the image of the document in the upper right hand corner to open it in a larger window so you can read it!

 

How Did This Increase to the NYS Foster Care Subsidy Rates All Come About?

Learn  more about how the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York  filed a lawsuit against the State of New York to compel the state to reimburse foster parents for the actual costs associated with children placed in their care. The posts below will provide key court rulings made by the various courts during the last decade as the Coalition continued to fight for families. 

For more information see AFFCNY.org/lawsuit/ 

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