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State Foster Care Agencies Take Millions Of Dollars Owed To Children In Their Care
NPR ^ | April 22, 2021 | Eli Hager and Joseph Shapiro

Posted on 04/29/2021 2:26:34 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

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Yeah, it's NPR, but broken clock, you know.

This seems like a crappy thing to do to foster kids.

1 posted on 04/29/2021 2:26:34 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat

What paid for his room and board?
By golly, I bet it was some money paid for that!

Hey, maybe it was that missing money you’re crying about.


2 posted on 04/29/2021 2:31:10 PM PDT by humblegunner (Balls To Picasso.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

We adopted our daughter when she was 4. Her birth mother is still alive but her birth father died years ago. Is she entitled to survivor benefits from him?


3 posted on 04/29/2021 2:32:10 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: CheshireTheCat

I was personally involved with a group that was investigating the CPS back in the 2000s. What we found was totally evil. The CPS would use any excuse to rip kids out of their homes merely to fill the beds in the NGO contractors. 100% of children on CPS were given a Mental Health label and put on psych meds.

Some of the case workers actually loved wrecking families. We learned this from people who worked for the CPS for a time, but couldn’t stomach committing these horrible acts.

Govt is now fundamentally corrupt. Your entire exec structure of govt is made up of criminal personalities. So stealing social security payments on the sly is something to be expected of these disgusting grasping greedy people.


4 posted on 04/29/2021 2:35:03 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Mercat
Maybe.

It would depend if she was his daughter, yours or a ward of the state at the time of his death.

5 posted on 04/29/2021 2:35:37 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: Mercat

I don’t know since you adopted her. I doubt it.

I would think the money would first go to any other kids he might have who are his heirs. Your daughter is your heir.


6 posted on 04/29/2021 2:35:46 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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They could have given him the $700 per month and tossed him out on the street.

And the cost of his care was probably that high, on average.


7 posted on 04/29/2021 2:37:35 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: CheshireTheCat

No matter what, it seems that admin costs up up over 80% of what’s received; 17% goes to where it’s needed, if that.


8 posted on 04/29/2021 2:38:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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To: Seruzawa

Government is the greediest, most corrupt and murderous force on Earth.

It’s not even debatable.


9 posted on 04/29/2021 2:39:07 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: Mariner

Who cares about what the law says?

We live in a post-rule-of-law world.


10 posted on 04/29/2021 2:40:09 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Anti-racism looks suspiciously like racism.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

The whole Forster care system is designed to do crappy things to foster kids.


11 posted on 04/29/2021 2:41:50 PM PDT by LIConFem (Don’t drain the swamp. Just fill it with hungry gators. )
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To: Mariner
They could have given him the $700 per month and tossed him out on the street.

No, they could not have.

A minor child who is the ward of the state is entitled to basic care.

And the cost of his care was probably that high, on average.

Irrelevant.

12 posted on 04/29/2021 2:46:33 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I feel like a chump for believing so long that America was, you know, America. Now that the mask has been yanked off, by the Trump presidency, and I see how corrupt it has been, I LAUGH at all these stories and revelations. Don’t even care about that kids money.


13 posted on 04/29/2021 2:47:34 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: americas.best.days...

“I feel like a chump for believing so long that America was, you know, America.”

_____________________________

You only feel that way for the first few months after you have that revelation.

Then that feeling is replaced by the intense anger you have for people who are not red-pilled yet despite all the overwhelming evidence of evil.


14 posted on 04/29/2021 2:50:33 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Many jails charge a daily fee.
If the fire department responds to your house, a fee is likely charged as well.
When a kid’s mom gets welfare, the child support paid by the father is paid to the state.

How is this different?

The state is supporting this kid. The taxpayers.

They are not entitled to recover those costs?


15 posted on 04/29/2021 2:51:05 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mercat

Maybe up until you adopted her.


16 posted on 04/29/2021 2:54:42 PM PDT by NEMDF
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They are not entitled to recover those costs?

Nope.

If the mother had left a life insurance policy the state would not be entitled to that either.

Why ever would you think they would?

And stealing funds from a minor is a serious crime. Embezzlement.

When a kid's mom gets welfare, the child support paid by the father is paid to the state.

Child support is ALWAYS paid to the state. No matter if welfare is involved or not.

17 posted on 04/29/2021 2:56:22 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: humblegunner

Social Security is federal money to the recipient.
Foster Care is separate federal money managed by the state agencies for the care of children.

The state agencies stole his money.
The Feds let them do it.


18 posted on 04/29/2021 2:57:46 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Mercat
My wife and I are in the midst of formally adopting our 3 year old granddaughter who has lived with us full time for 2 years now.

Her dad (our son) died when she was 9 months old and her mother's parental rights have been permanently severed by CPS and the family courts here in Florida because of her neglect, drug and alcohol abuse and being in and out of jail regularly for various offenses.

But we have been receiving the child's SS disability check from the government because of her dad's employment before he died. We put it in the bank every month for her and set up a trust for her to draw from when she reaches her majority. Giving a kid a big pot of money all at once when they can legally have access to it is not good idea. Most of them would squander it away before you knew it.

By my conservative calculations, she'll have close to a quarter of a million dollars in the trust when she comes of age. Pretty good grub stake to start her adult life with, especially if she can't have it all at once to waste.

But we never saw any evidence of dishonesty or fraud on the part of the CPS in having access to her money. We just filed to have the monthly stipend direct deposited into a savings account every month.

19 posted on 04/29/2021 3:06:11 PM PDT by HotHunt
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Geez. I get 498.00 a month. 2 kids. 9 and 13. And the state only paid me 12 out of 21 months. Oops sorry they said. And by the way we don’t pay retro. After the daycare I paid, I now average less than 4.00 a day per kid.
No payment first 6 months and in February they cut me off since I didn’t reapply with the application stating that I still had the kids. Really? They don’t know I still have the kids? The system is so broken.


20 posted on 04/29/2021 4:07:32 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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