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SSI Benefits

4/25/2024

Are Disabled Kids in NYC Foster Care Receiving the Social Security Benefits They Deserve? 

Susanti Sarkar

After years of promised reforms, advocates complain the city unfairly keeps monthly payments from the Social Security Administration.

4/9/2023

Social Security Conflict: California Child Welfare Agencies under Fire for Pocketing Foster Kids’ Benefits

Jeanne Kuang

A growing number of states, including California, are moving to prevent child welfare systems from using the Social Security benefits of foster youth to offset the costs of care.

6/30/2022

Local Bill Would Help Foster Youth in Washington, D.C., Keep Their Benefits

The Imprint staff reports

A local Washington, D.C., bill would stop the government from applying for federal benefits on behalf of foster youth.

12/28/2021

Judge Curbs Alaska’s Practice of Claiming Foster Youths’ Federal Benefits

Martín Macías, Jr.

Last year, foster youth in Alaska won the right to be notified when the state seized their federal benefits and this fall, the judge on the case finalized the ruling.

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.

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