Stoneleigh Fellow Steve Volk authors an article in Spotlight PA on pending statewide legislation that would end the practice of Pennsylvania counties diverting Social Security benefits owed to children in foster care into local own budgets.
Lawmakers are renewing a push to end the practice of Pennsylvania counties diverting Social Security benefits owed to children in foster care into their own budgets, after new federal directives called on states to take action.
An investigation published last year by Resolve Philly and Spotlight PA that analyzed four years of data found at least 1,300 children in Pennsylvania have had money taken from them this way, to the tune of at least $15.7 million.
