“I think the grandparents’ financial status wouldn’t matter if Zero was in his grandparents care under a foster program where his grandparents were paid as custodians.”
Yes, there are relatively small stipends available to parents without a means test. But most foster care payments go to low income families. A bank VP has a reputation to uphold: the paltry amount they might have been able to secure on Barry’s behalf doesn’t seem like it would be worth the risk of a newspaper reporter getting wind that a highly paid bank executive was receiving taxpayer-financed assistance to raise a child that they were sending to the toniest prep school in Honolulu etc. Sure, their behavior would have technically been legal, but the public blowback could have badly tarnished the bank’s image and risked her job. A bank VP earns several multiples of the average worker’s income. Why take that risk?
see #103
“Barry since age 10 had been living with grandparents, who were not exactly paupersI’m not sure but I think the grandparents’ financial status wouldn’t matter if Zero was in his grandparents care under a foster program where his grandparents were paid as custodians. I wonder if anyone checked to see if Zero was a ward of the state at any time? “
info would be protected, but definately something interesting??