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The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.
The law made numerous changes to the child welfare system, mostly to Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, which covers federal payments to states for foster care and adoption assistance. According to child welfare experts and advocates, the law made the most significant federal improvements to the child welfare system in over a decade.
ASFA was enacted in a bipartisan manner to correct problems inherent within the foster care system that deterred adoption and led to foster care drift. Many of these problems had stemmed from an earlier bill, the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, [1] although they had not been anticipated when that law was passed, as states decided to interpret that law as requiring biological ...
1967 - Social Security Act Amendments, Pub. L. 90–248 1969 - Tax Reform Act of 1969 , Pub. L. 91–172 1971 - Social Security Amendments, Pub. L. 92–5
Bipartisan support for the Social Security Fairness Act. The Social Security Fairness Act, one of the most bipartisan bills in Congress this session, aims to repeal WEP and GPO.
The Social Security Fairness Act, which would increase benefits for 2.8 million retirees, has bipartisan support but time running out.
It is a bill that would address federal adoption incentives and would amend the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the state plan for foster care and adoption assistance to demonstrate that the state agency has developed policies and procedures for identifying, documenting in agency records, and determining appropriate services with respect ...
Sen. Mazie K. Hirono and Rep. Ted Deutch introduced the Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act on July 21. The bill’s sponsors say the legislation would extend the depletion of the Social ...