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Apr 3, 2023 · A staffing crisis of lawyers for New York City children is threatening legal services for young people who have been removed from their parents, orphaned by the pandemic or otherwise involved in Family Court matters.

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Apr 9, 2024 · But new documents quietly released by the Administration for Children’s Services last month reveal the agency hasn’t allowed foster kids to amass those nest eggs if the benefit they’re eligible for is a form of Social Security called Supplemental Security Income, or SSI.

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Sep 29, 2021 · In downtown Manhattan, a 16-year-old in foster care appears in Family Court before a judge who will decide his future — his wrists chained to his belt while four court officers hover above his slight frame. He later told his court-appointed attorney that “he felt like an animal.”

Jun 15, 2024 · New York is close to fixing a quirk in state law that has allowed adoptive parents to collect millions of dollars for children no longer in their care — a scenario that Essence Flowers feels shut her out of an opportunity to start life on her own.