HB1229 Summary

• Prohibits the Department of Human Services from using social security benefits or supplemental security income payments received for children in foster care to cover the costs of foster care services.

• Requires the Department of Human Services to establish a savings account for each foster child on whose behalf social security payments are received and deposit all such payments into that account.

• Makes the savings account accessible to the child when the child is removed from foster care custody due to reunification with family, adoption, or aging out of foster care.

• Addresses the legislature's finding that between 2018 and 2022, the department collected approximately $1,500,000 from thirty-seven children in foster care by intercepting their social security payments.