Precertified
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Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 3:01 PM
Subject: Precertified...Here's the answer
Hi everyone,
A while back I posted a question about being precertified and what it means. Nobody responded. I asked somebody at the agency we are working with (in NY state), and below is her response. Thought I'd let you all know. :)
What is precertified?
It has to do with private adoption and taking your home study to court to get it certified makes it's valid for private adoption for 18 months as opposed to 12 months with us. It is a benefit if you are doing private adoption along side us. If not your home study is good for 12 months with us regardless.
Purchase of Service (POS)
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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:07 PM
Subject: Purchase of Service?
Purchase of service aka POS means that the county has funds available to cover the cost of a private agency to do the post placement supervision. In this money, the cost of your home study can qualify as well as travel. Counties can have anywhere between 3-5K for a child. Most have gone down to 3 and this is covering the post placement costs. When a family has a study done by a public agency, the supervision is done gratis from one county to another.
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Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: Purchase of Service?
Purchase of service refers to one way that states will reimburse either adoptive couples or other states (not sure/don't remember) when you are adopting children from foster care. It is a sub-class of adoption subsidies.
This is as opposed to or in addition to waiving legal and filing fees, tax credits, and one time reimbursable expenses.
When we adopted through our county, they waived all the legal and filing fee charges (the county paid their own lawyers, expenses) but at the end we were asked if we incurred any other expenses because they would file a one time reimbursement (we didn't)
But if you use your county/state to adopt, but end up adopting a child in the system from another county they post which subsidies, assistance programs that county uses so you know/your sw knows what works for your county, how much you might have to put up front, and be reimbursed, etc.....
If I remember correctly purchase of services is more complicated but covers more things for children with higher risk or medical issues .....really not sure hear.
NAC (national adoption clearing house) should have some definitions for you. As should your social worker
Hope that smattering at least points you in the right direction to find a complete answer.
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