Adoptive Families Sue Indiana DCS Over Failure To Pay Adoption Subsidies

On June 2, 2014, an adoptive parent of three special needs children sued the Indiana Department of Child Services (DCS) for failing to provide adoption subsidies that it had agreed to pay in the adoption contract. In 2009, DCS assumed responsibility for making the payments from counties that had done so previously. The department placed families on an adoption subsidy waiting list that said subsidies would be provided “if funding becomes available.” DCS stopped making adoption subsidy payments in 2009, claiming that there were no funds available to pay the adoption subsidy payments promised in the contract. However, from 2009 . . .