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  • State Foster Care Agencies Take Millions Of Dollars Owed To Children In Their Care

    04/29/2021 2:26:34 PM PDT · by CheshireTheCat · 20 replies
    NPR ^ | April 22, 2021 | Eli Hager and Joseph Shapiro
    Tristen Hunter was 16 and preparing to leave foster care in Juneau, Alaska, when a social worker mentioned that the state agency responsible for protecting him had been taking his money for years. Hunter's mother died when he was little, and his father later went to prison, court records show, leaving him in a foster home. In the years that followed, he was owed nearly $700 a month in federal survivor benefits, an amount based on Social Security contributions from his mother's paychecks. He doesn't remember Alaska's Office of Children's Services ever informing him that it was routing this money...