The Administration for Children and Families is calling on 39 states to change their policies in order to protect foster care youths' social security benefits ...

The Trump administration sent letters calling for an end to the diversion of foster youths’ Social Security survivor benefits ...

Foster care maintenance payments are a significant form of ongoing financial assistance. In circumstances where the Department of Children's Services (DCS) is involved, becoming a licensed foster ...

The Arizona Department of Child Safety is increasing the amount of money families receive for taking care of the state’s ...

Wisconsin is among the states that has diverted foster children's federal benefits to offset costs incurred by the child ...

PORTLAND - A federal appeals panel in San Francisco on Tuesday reversed a decision that would have permitted the state of Oregon to unilaterally cut benefits paid to some foster parents. In 2002, the ...

More than 1,600 families in Missouri will feel the effects this week of legislation that cuts at least 25 percent from payments to participants in the Grandparents as Foster Parents program. Cape ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Of all the people in the child welfare system who get paid, the ones who might put the money to best use are the parents at risk of losing their children to ...