The state does not track how much money is withheld from these children, who make up a fraction of California’s 55,000 foster kids.
“Neither federal nor state law prohibits the offsetting of foster care benefits for youth,” said Scott Murray, California Department of Social Services spokesman. “The county may use those funds for the youth’s daily care and maintenance.”
In its latest fiscal year, San Diego County reimbursed itself about $137,000 in benefits from 13 foster youth, the county reported.— Sabrina Forte, director of policy and impact litigation at the Alliance for Children’s Rights Social Security spokesperson Patricia Raymond said the agency monitors foster care agencies’ use of the benefits.
Some youth advocates want counties to screen foster children for eligibility for benefits. Without that help through the arduous application process, they say eligible youth will miss out on the money in adulthood.Taking the money while the youth are still in foster care, some advocates say, is the counties’ financial incentive to apply.
By the time she was 15, Tanner had crisscrossed the state, moved from foster home to group home to juvenile detention center. She had just moved into another placement in Chico when her new guardian got a check in the mail from the Social Security Administration. When she turned 18, she asked Butte County to send her the survivors benefits directly, she said. But because she was part of the extended foster care program, she remained in the county’s care.
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