Fostering allowance and benefits

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Hello. I want to foster but just realised that if I am getting fostering allowance, it may stop/reduced my benefits - housing benefit for an example. Therefore I might not be able to afford to do it (we are just about surviving on the money now). Does the fostering allowance count as an "income"? or os this completely different?

Please let me know if anybody knows

so we are just on the path of fostering i work part time but wifes at home even tho we are more interested in the chilkd then the money wwe still need to live so they is a few mixed answers on here we get a part rent rebate so if we go with a private foster agencey we will loose that but if we stay with our LA we keep it is that right

I don't no if I'm doing this right.. but here goes!! Me and my partner split a few months ago on good terms he is still living with me and we started to claim UC separate I had a few meetings at the job centre about this and now it seems they've stopped my claim claiming we are still a couple.. but we really aren't.. he's on the housing register to move but isn't getting anywhere.. we don't speak stay in different rooms only problem is I told them that while he works nights I have he little boy but he is asleep

So sorry I didn't realise I commented on a thread

I am after some advice please. My nephew lives with me and my mother his several disabled and autistic he can walk but not unguided and their is no speech or even understanding of wether walking in the road is bad or not my issue is..... she's only been getting careers allowance from the government she has no parental rights of the child and because his so disabled it's near impossible for her to get a job and she's also been told about this fostering allowance but it's been years and she is struggling with money and the general things you should be able to provide for a young one she was not told about any fostering allowance over 7 years ago . My real question is what can we do to get this allowance I know for sure it would help and impact my mother and nephews life tremendously. Can we appeal or what I do not know where to start and my mother has gone and given up it seems. Thanks in advance .

Hi there. I'm in the process of becoming a foster carer. At the moment, I'm struggling with what type of fostering I want to do. I'm torn between, emergency or short term fostering. Is there anybody on here, that does this type of fostering? Also, do you get a retainer if you do emergency? Thanks in advance.

Did you go with la... if so I'm not sure about the retainer

I would go for both short term and emergency short term can though mean anything from one months to year year and a half

Emergency . Again as above only disadvantage of emergency is we don't always get as much information but we get limited information any-case and you will be able to see past that once experiences and now what you will and won't accept in regards of behaviours

Thanks fos6mo3.
Yes I've gone with LA. Just staring the course's. They should give us more information. How are we suppose to help if we don't know the facts. So, we won't know about the child's behaviour until they present it? That's unfair on the child and foster carer.

Unfortunately this is just how it works. Usually when a child comes into foster care for the first time little will be known about them and their background. It's only when a child has been in the system previously and now needs a change of carer that background info is usually available.

Even when a child has behaved in one way for a previous/current carers, they frequently behave differently in a different environment with different carers. So even then you're no better off.