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Committee advances bill to index infant supplemental payment for teen moms in foster care
Summary
The Senate Human Services Committee heard testimony and moved AB 349, which would index the infant supplemental payment for parenting foster youth to the California Necessities Index to reflect inflation; the bill was passed to the Appropriations Committee.
Assemblymember Dixon presented AB 349 to the Senate Human Services Committee, seeking to index the infant supplemental payment for foster youth parenting infants to the California Necessities Index.
The bill’s author said the infant supplemental payment has not been updated since 2016 and ‘‘falls critically short in providing these parenting foster youth . . . adequate financial resources to care for their children.’’ The measure would make the payment automatically increase with…
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