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Committee backs stipend for kinship caregivers in HB 4 31 to ease foster-to-kin transitions
Summary
Lawmakers advanced HB 4 31, which would require the Division of Child and Family Services to offer a one-time optional stipend to kinship caregivers to help with initial costs when a child is placed with relatives. Sponsors said the stipend could allow more children to remain with family and avoid placement separation.
The committee advanced HB 4 31, a bill to authorize one-time transition stipends for kinship caregivers who accept children into their homes. Representative Acton, the bill sponsor, described situations where grandparents or other relatives were unable to accept all children because of one-time costs such as clothing, beds, diapers and short-term childcare.
"This stipend is optional," Acton said,…
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