More Assets for Foster Children

US Lawmakers are reconsidering assets for foster children. Currently, state foster care agencies claim federal money for maintaining foster children. As NPR's Rachel Jones reports on March 25th, "Across the country, child welfare agencies are trying to cover costs by claiming the Social Security benefits of tens of thousands of foster children. New legislation on Capitol Hill aims to give control of that money back to the children....Most states won't end the practice without a fight. But child advocates say that unless eligible foster children actually get the SSI payments they're entitled to, they could wind up like so many other youth who age out of the system: homeless and broke".

Does this mean that new initiative will reduce States burdens to take care older children? Does it imply that more monies will be allocated for States to maintain foster children as they will loose maintneance money? Who knows?