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DCF urges lawmakers to waive DMV ID and license fees for youth with foster care history
Summary
A Department for Children and Families official told the House Transportation Committee that waiving DMV fees for current and former foster youth would be low-cost but administratively helpful; DCF and DMV are working on options if statutory change is not adopted.
Amanda Churchill Kipp, a policy and practice specialist in the adolescent services unit at the Vermont Department for Children and Families, told the House Transportation Committee on April 29 that DCF supports a statutory waiver of DMV fees for youth who are or were in foster care.
The change would remove fees for non‑driver IDs, permits and driver's licenses for an eligible cohort DCF estimates at about 150 youth a year and would cost the state roughly $8,000 to $15,000 annually, Churchill Kipp said. She added that DCF's Youth Development Program already spent about $7,300 in the past 12 months to help 120 youth obtain non‑driver IDs, permits and licenses.
Churchill Kipp said the Youth Development Program, or YDP, provides case management and flexible funding to help foster youth obtain identification and driving credentials, and that federal law and state policy require DCF to assist youth in custody in obtaining identity documents. "For the record, my name is Amanda Churchill Kipp. I'm a policy and practice specialist in the adolescent…
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