Nationwide, foster care agencies are funded through a complicated web of federal and state grants and subsidies, paid for by taxpayers. Children's Social Security benefits were not intended to be one ...

There's a growing move to end what some call "the orphan tax" and stop states from taking benefit checks from children and ...

The longer a child spends in care, the more anxiety the child may experience due to separation. Agencies need to place more emphasis upon permanency of family for a child.” — Dr. John DeGarmo ATLANTA, ...

State foster care systems across the nation would get more oversight under a bill that U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff announced on Wednesday. Ossoff said the bill was born out of his 13-month investigation into ...

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Foster agencies, named as defendants in hundreds of CVA cases, are pleading with state lawmakers to intervene in settlement payouts. Private nonprofit foster care agencies, which often contract with ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — According to agencies like Angel Foster Family Network, foster care agencies are having trouble finding enough families to care for all the kids in need and have to turn away the ...