While other states ban the practice, California counties keep foster kids’ Social Security checks. Newsom's weekend veto lets it continue.
Sign up for a weekly digest of reporting and analysis on one of the Golden State’s most pressing issues: inequality.Get the news that matters to all Californians. Start every week informed.A young foster child at the Beachwood House, a group home in Los Angeles. California counties take Social Security benefits from hundreds of foster kids. Photo by Jae C. Hong, AP PhotoStates across the United States are banning the practice of billing kids for the cost of their foster care. Gov.
Recently Arizona, New Mexico and Oregon have halted the practice, which came under increased scrutiny in 2021 after NPR and The Marshall Project published an investigation. This summer the federal governmentto help children save their benefits instead, or find loved ones who could receive the payments on their behalf.
In a statement, Amy Harfeld, national policy director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego, called the reimbursement practice “unscrupulous.”“Governor Newsom let down thousands of hopeful, disabled and orphaned foster youth by vetoing AB 1512,” she wrote. “Budget challenges or not, picking the pockets of California’s most vulnerable foster youth to fund their care is morally and fiscally indefensible.
The state contends child welfare agencies are spending the benefits appropriately — on the children’s care — just as if they were the children’s parents.
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