Secretary Kennedy and ACF: Every Child Deserves a Home, Dec. 15, 2025
December 15, 2025 · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · 0:02:30
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What happened
HHS published Secretary Kennedy’s statement with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) on December 15, 2025. According to HHS’s description, ACF notified 39 governors that their states divert current foster youths’ earned Social Security survivor benefits; Kennedy states the goal is to ensure these earned benefits are no longer taken from foster youth, under the principle that every child deserves a home and a fair chance to thrive.
Why it matters
Foster-youth benefits are an ACF responsibility inside Kennedy’s HHS; the 39-governor notification is a concrete federal action with a countable footprint, and its follow-through is directly checkable state by state.
Scoreboard watch
The notification to 39 governors over diverted foster-youth survivor benefits is recorded here as stated — a scoreboard candidate, to be checked against state policy changes.
Sources: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, ‘Secretary Kennedy and ACF: Every Child Deserves a Home,’ December 15, 2025 (HHS upload, embedded above).
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