Requires states to prioritize placing children with relatives and boosts support for kinship caregivers.
This bill would make it easier for children who cannot live with their parents to be placed with family members or close family friends, known as kinship caregivers. It would require states to actively seek out these placements and provide more support services to these caregivers, including financial assistance and help with housing.
Today, states have flexibility in how they involve relatives in child welfare cases and can choose whether to offer financial support to kinship guardians. This bill would require states to actively prioritize and support kinship placements, make financial assistance for kinship guardians mandatory, and remove barriers like age limits for caregivers. It would also eliminate the old welfare eligibility rule for foster care payments, making more children eligible for support.
HR 5583 · 119th Congress · September 26, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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