Financial support for foster families
The amount of aid depends, inter alia, on on the age of the child, his health condition, as well as additional factors such as demoralization (a concept within the meaning of the applicable regulations on juvenile delinquency proceedings).
It is worth asking the Foster Care Organizer, who always has up-to-date data in your region, about the amount of benefits.
The basic form of financial assistance is the allowance to cover the costs of maintaining a child in foster care. It is granted to a foster family / family orphanage owner for each placed child. The benefit is granted from the date the child is actually placed in a foster family until the day the child actually leaves the family.
Basic benefits
An allowance in the amount of the child care benefit: Foster families and families running a family orphanage to a benefit to cover the costs of child maintenance for each placed child up to the age of 18 are entitled to the amount of PLN 500 per month.
Allowance to cover increased child maintenance costs
It is due when the child has a certificate of disability or a certificate of significant or moderate degree of disability, and also when the child has been placed in the family under the Act on Juvenile Proceedings. The amount of the allowance is an amount not lower than PLN 200 per month.
Financial aid available for non-professional families and professional
Remuneration
It is available only to professional families and families running a family orphanage. The legislator provided for higher remuneration for families serving as family emergency services. When determining its amount, one should take into account, inter alia, the qualifications, training and assessments obtained by the family / homemaker.
If the professional family / orphanage does not take care of any child at a given time (because it has been placed e.g. in a social welfare home, institution of care and treatment, etc., or the last entrusted child has left the family / home), the remuneration for the period of being ready for the time of the child's return or admission is 80% of the remuneration received so far.
Funds for the maintenance of the premises
Professional and non-professional foster families (including family orphanages) may receive financial resources for the maintenance of a flat / single-family house. The amount of funds corresponds to the costs incurred by the family for:
• rent,
• rental fees,
• charges for electricity and heat, water, gas, reception solid and liquid waste,
• passenger lift,
• collective antenna, TV and radio subscription, services
telecommunications and operating costs
Funds for the renovation of the premises
Professional families may also be granted a benefit once a year to cover the costs related to the necessary renovation of the premises / house. Family homes may also apply for a benefit to cover the necessary costs related to the renovation or change of the premises / house in which the orphanage is operated (the upper limit is specified in the contract for the performance of the function of a family orphanage).
Covering the necessary expenses
The last of the special types of assistance is the provision to cover other necessary and unforeseen costs related to the care and upbringing of a child.
The upper limit of this aid is also specified in the above-mentioned contract.