In the wake of the Saint Francis debacle, the State of Nebraska has taken over case management inside the Omaha-area child welfare system. It's still struggling, experts and the state's own metrics show.
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Advocates for children are raising concerns about a state effort to use Social Security payments owed to foster kids to help defray the costs of foster care â a practice state officials say is completely legal.
Since 2009, Nebraska has paid a Virginia company, Maximus Health Services, to research which of the stateâs 4,000 foster children might be eligible for Social Security, either due to a physical or mental disability or due to losing a parent, and then go after those benefits.
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