Help! Losing assistance.
We have a kinship situation, and the infant in our care is currently attending daycare covered by the state (Ohio). CPS has decided to file for us to have full legal custody. Mom will still have parental rights. With this filing we found out that we are going to lose the daycare coverage we currently have. JFS indicated that without the CPS protection plan they would go based off our income and circumstances which we probably will not qualify for any coverage. We also have our own child in daycare. $500 a week is insane, but the daycare does extremely well with the needs of our kinship infant and we really don’t want to have to go private but if our funding is cut we won’t have any other choice.
Any advice on if there’s a way in which we can/should be able to keep benefits while having full legal custody? Things moved way faster than they were supposed to in our situation and we thought it was going to be at least another year before they would start filing anything.
UPDATE: We got legal custody, mom signed off, CPS did ask magistrate for an extension on the Protection detail to allow us time to figure out how to go about child care. Magistrate agreed, but seemed slightly confused why our childcare coverage was hanging on by only a protection detail and asked about Kinship options and KGAP caseworker said she'd look into it. Outside of the court room when we asked about all the other kinship stipends, and other resources she just said "there's no money" so i think we'll be filing a grievance with the county asking for additional details and resources and policies to figure out what's supposed to be happening, what our options are and so on. Thank you everyone for your input! I don't think we would have necessarily accomplished what we did today without all the advice!