INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Indiana families who adopted nearly 2,000 children will soon receive shares of a more than $15 million settlement of allegations that the state reneged on promised payments.
A LaPorte woman sued the Indiana Department of Child Services in June, alleging that it failed to pay promised adoption subsidies while returning roughly $240 million to state coffers since 2009.
A September court settlement in that case calls for lump-sum retroactive payments to families who had been on Indiana's adoption subsidy wait list from 2009 through June 30, 2014.
Attorney Lynn Toops represents those families and tells The Indianapolis Star the payments in that settlement should be mailed to families within the next few days.
Toops says the average retroactive payment adoptive families will receive will be about $5,000.
