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Committee adjusts language letting DCF, as rep‑payee, use foster youths' Social Security benefits with appeal and accounting safeguards
Summary
The committee revised H657 language to allow the department, as representative payee, to use a foster child's Social Security benefits for unmet needs upon request, add an appeals duty for denied SSI applications, and require annual accounting; members discussed staggered implementation to allow planning.
The House Human Services Committee reviewed proposals in H657 that would clarify how Social Security benefits are handled for children in foster care when the Department acts as a representative payee.
Draft subsection B (as read to committee) would permit the department, "upon the request of the child or the child's foster care provider," in its role as representative payee, to use the child's Social Security…
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