Benefits

Kids often aren’t actually receiving benefits they're owed, because government agencies are intercepting them without their knowledge. 

A regularly updated tracker of state legislative and policy efforts to protect federal benefits for youth in foster care

Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill preventing counties from taking benefits from orphaned or disabled children to pay for their foster care.

A new lawsuit accuses a Northern California county of unfairly denying Native American youth access to extended foster care benefits.

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

This report analyzes the potential costs and benefits of allowing foster youth to remain in care until age 21, the policy encouraged by the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act and proposed in California’s Assembly Bill 12, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act.