Show Notes
When a child loses a parent, Social Security pays them a survivor benefit their mom or dad earned through years of work. But if that child ends up in foster care, many states have been quietly taking that money for themselves. Tim Walz once said those benefits gave him dignity growing up. Minnesota is still one of 13 hold-out states stealing these funds from orphans today.
Assistant Secretary Alex Adams is trying to put an end to it. The “Orphan Tax” is only one of the messes he inherited at the Administration for Children and Families, but since his arrival, the ACF has become one of the most talked-about departments in all of HHS, both for their ruthless red tape cutting and also for their focus on children’s wellbeing.
The Biden administration left behind childcare rules that paid providers before kids ever showed up, a foster care rule that sorted families by whether the government deemed them LGBTQ friendly, mask mandates at Head Start long after COVID, and regulations that drove the program’s budget up while enrollment dropped by a third. Adams walks Nick through everything he inherited, and what he’s doing to clean it up.
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