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Grandparents and Guardians Ask Legislature to Extend College Fee Waivers to Kinship Caregivers
Summary
Multiple grandparents, kinship caregivers and commission leaders testified in support of bills (H.1428 / S.924 and related measures) to extend Massachusetts tuition-and-fee waivers to students raised by legal kinship guardians outside the Department of Children and Families (DCF). Witnesses described fixed incomes, added caregiving costs and
Boston Grandparents and kinship guardians urged the Joint Committee on Higher Education to extend long-standing tuition-and-fee waivers that currently apply to youth in DCF custody to young adults raised under legal guardianship by relatives.
Representative Salvatore Donato and testifying advocates noted that Chapter 15A, section 19 currently provides tuition-and-fee waivers for certain youth who were in DCF custody or adopted from DCF, but guardianship outside DCF often leaves families without the same supports. Joseph…
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