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These foster youths say the state of Alaska pocketed thousands of dollars that belonged to them Nationwide, government agencies take money owed to foster children with disabilities or a deceased parent, The Marshall Project and NPR found. And most kids never know it’s gone. Author: Eli Hager, The Marshall Project with Joseph Shapiro, NPR Published 2 hours ago
Print article Tristen Hunter was 16 and preparing to leave foster care in Juneau, when a social worker mentioned that the state agency responsible for protecting him had been taking his money for years. Tristen Hunter, 21, outside the skate park he says he ’grew up at. ’ Photographed April 12 in Juneau. (Ash Adams for The Marshall Project and NPR)
Clockwise from top left: Tristen Hunter, Ethan Harvey, Malerie McClusky, Katrina Edwards, Mateo Jaime and Alex Carter. Credit: Ash Adams for NPR
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Tristen Hunter was 16 and preparing to leave foster care in Juneau, Alaska, when a social worker mentioned that the state agency responsible for protecting him had been taking his money for years.
Hunter s mother died when he was little, and his father later went to prison, court records show, leaving him in a foster home. In the years that followed, he was owed nearly $700 a month in federal survivor benefits, an amount based on Social Security contributions from his mother s paychecks. He doesn t remember Alaska s Office of Children s Services ever informing him that it was routing this money â his safety net â into state coffers.
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