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[Music] foreign today we are going to talk about the newest change to Adoption Subsidy negotiations for quite a while up until about 2012. substance negotiations were handled locally in each local DCS office in 2012 DCS created the central office in downtown Indianapolis who then took over all of the substance negotiations for all the negotiations all over the entire state of Indiana since 2012 until 2022 such negotiations remained relatively the same you filled out something called the payment request information form and then a subsidy negotiation ensued from there between you and your adoption attorney and the DCS subsidy negotiator which was also a DCS attorney in 2022 we've seen the DCS subsidy negotiation process change a staggering three times the most recent change took place within the last two to three weeks believe it or not I think these changes are actually changes for the better the process is getting more favorable to foster parents like yourself who are negotiating subsidies through DCS okay so let's get to it the way that the current subsidy negotiation process works is that that after DCS applies for subseas and gets your eligibility determination which we're not going to cover in this video DCS then comes to you without you providing any financial information whatsoever and provides an offer of at least 50 percent of the per diem you would be receiving if you're a licensed foster parent now this is huge keep in mind that DCS used to initiate subsid negotiations with an offer of one or two dollars a day or maybe even zero dollars a day the fact that they're coming in at 50 percent of your per diem is an enormous step forward in such negotiations so back to it DCS comes in with our offer of 50 percent you then have a decision whether to accept that 50 percent and smooth sailing right into adoption or you can provide certain financial information that DCS requests and try to negotiate for more than 50 percent now a side note the previous change to the substance negotiation process was that if you try to negotiate for more you might risk getting less than 50 percent so not a lot of people wanted to take that risk of negotiating for more than 50 percent because you could end up with less than 50 but the way that they're doing it now is that you can either accept the 50 or you can pull together the financial information they request and try to negotiate more than 50 percent but you don't risk losing that 50 percent which is key DCS will not come back after looking at your financials and say actually you're not even going to give you the 50 we're going to give you five dollars a day so that's no longer going to happen that's a huge step forward thank you DCS for making that change so if you pull together your financial information DCS...