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Lawmakers Urge SSA to Improve Data Exchanges and Protections for Foster Youth and Children with Sickle Cell
Summary
Members of the work and welfare subcommittee urged Commissioner Frank Buscagnano to accelerate monthly data exchanges with state child welfare agencies, strengthen monitoring of representative payees for foster children receiving SSI, and address concerns about sickle cell denials identified by a Blue Ribbon Panel.
Members of the House work and welfare subcommittee and the Social Security subcommittee pressed Social Security Commissioner Frank Buscagnano to accelerate data exchanges with state child welfare agencies and to address reports that children with sickle cell disease are being denied Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
Rep. Darren LaHood, chair of the work and welfare subcommittee, told the commissioner that approximately $190 million in SSI and Social Security benefits went to children in foster care in 2023 and stressed that monthly data…
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