A California grandmother fights to retrieve $30,000 taken by San Diego County from her grandchildren’s survivor benefits. Counties take millions of dollars in federal benefits from foster children, says a lawmaker trying to stop it.
Los Angeles County has the greatest share of the caseload, with custody of about a third of the state’s foster children. The county’s Department of Children and Family Services receives the benefits of about 600 children in its custody in any given month, a
Bryan’s legislation, a placeholder that will be amended next week, has yet to be heard in a committee. It “They’ve been traumatized, they’ve been taken from their family and now they’ve lost a parent… This is their money, and you’re stealing it.”For years California’s advocates have pushed the state and counties to help foster youth apply for the federal benefits. While the children are under state and county care, county agencies have viewed the benefits as a funding stream.
Both list preferred alternatives: a child’s relative, an adult sibling or even a family friend who has demonstrated an interest in the child’s well-being.But California counties have made themselves the recipients even when other relatives were available.That’s what happened in Baca’s grandchildren’s case and in the case of another set of two children now suing San Diego County.
“The kids are going to need those eventually,” she said. “I thought the county would collect them but put them in trust for the kids.”
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