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Washington Must Step Up to Protect Foster Youths’ Benefits

8/17/2022

Washington Must Step Up to Protect Foster Youths’ Benefits

Opinion

Ian Marx

Ian Marx urges Washington to take action on the national level to protect benefits that belong to youth in foster care.

Washington Must Step Up to Protect Foster Youths’ Benefits

8/27/2021

Child Welfare Ideas from the Experts

John Kelly

Ian Marx, a law student at Emory University in Georgia. 
The Imprint is highlighting each of the policy recommendations made this summer by the participants of the Foster Youth Internship Program, a group of 11 former foster youths who have completed congressional internships.

Youth Services Insider

6/4/2019

Bill Introduced to Connect Social Security, Welfare Benefits to Kids Living with Relatives

Guest Writer

  Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) and several Democrat co-sponsors have added to the legislation piling up this session to help grandparents and other relatives caring for the children of loved ones.

5/8/2013

A History of Exploiting America’s Foster Youth: Part Three

Waln Brown, Ph.D.

Note: This is part three of a three-part look by columnists and former foster youth Waln Brown and John Seita about the darker side of foster care in America. Click here to read Part One, and click here to read Part Two.

4/1/2013

Child Welfare: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits for Children in Foster Care

John Kelly

This report covers the issues and current laws that govern the use of Social Security Income benefits for children in foster care. Children whose parents have died may be eligible for SSI benefits, and many child welfare agencies permit the use of SSI benefits to cover foster care costs.

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