Foster care is meant to provide a safe, stable environment for children until they can return home or find another permanent place to live.
Amy Harfeld, the National Policy Director for the Children’s Advocacy Institute, says Alaska has been failing to provide notice to foster children about social security benefits to which they are entitled.
Some agencies, Harfeld says, were adding themselves as payees when children qualified for social security benefits. Those dollars would then go toward expenses such as child care — something that foster children, are not obligated to do. While they are fighting to fix this issue, another controversial practice — which was recently outlawed — surrounds charges for “child support.” Previously, when children went into foster care, parents could be hit with a surprise bill from either the county or state to share the cost of care. Trevor Storrs, President of the Alaska Children’s Trust, says this was simply keeping good parents from being reunited with their children.
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