{"id":374074,"date":"2026-10-15T18:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374074\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T18:08:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:08:39","slug":"acf-leader-looks-to-eliminate-orphan-tax-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374074\/","title":{"rendered":"ACF leader looks to eliminate &#8216;Orphan Tax&#8217; nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal Administration for Children and Families is looking to end the so-called &#8220;orphan tax&#8221; in every state, including New York.<\/p>\n<p>The practice allows state child welfare agencies to intercept a foster child&#8217;s deceased caregiver&#8217;s federal and Social Security benefits to reimburse themselves for the costs of foster care. That&#8217;s care the state is legally required to provide for every foster child.<\/p>\n<p>New York is one of the remaining 13 states to uphold the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Adams, the assistant secretary for ACF, joined &#8220;The Rush Hour&#8221; on Wednesday to talk about the latest moves to end the practice nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal Administration for Children and Families is looking to end the so-called &#8220;orphan tax&#8221; in every state,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3110,25,9,24,11,10,12,2370,3111,27,200],"class_list":["post-374074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-annika-pergament","tag-app-top-stories","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-ny1-interviews","tag-the-rush-hour","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}