Last year, I brought up the fact that the Department of Children, Youth & Families was taking money from kids in state care.
It is long-standing department policy to take federal benefits, such as Social Security or veterans’ benefits, from children in state care to fund administrative costs and sustain DCYF’s bottom line.
Our state’s most vulnerable residents, children under care of the state with nothing, are being victimized to support cushy salaries and bloated, and sometimes unnecessary, department spending…