Applicant income source - Foster kids

[Lois S.]

If the only source of income prospective tenant has is income from foster parenting, how would you respond?

[Kathy Johnson]

In California, the foster care payment is not income to the foster parent.  It is a payment for the expenses of the foster child and the foster parent is they payee for the foster child.  Foster parents when they apply for licensing have to show a household budget that shows how they pay for their own expenses because they are not supposed to be living off the foster child's money.