Federal Court Strikes Down California's Reimbursements to Foster Parents, Rules That California Illegally Shortchanges Abused and Neglected Children

Federal Court Strikes Down California's Reimbursements to Foster Parents, Rules That California Illegally Shortchanges Abused and Neglected Children

In a stunning victory for California’s approximately 70,000 foster children and foster children nationally, a federal district court for the Northern District of California has for the first time decreed that a state’s method of reimbursing foster parents for the expenses they incur caring for abused and neglected children is illegal, ruling that the reimbursements failed to consider and pay for the actual costs of raising foster children.

Note: They get enough.