A longstanding practice of using a child’s federal survivor and disability benefits to defray the cost of foster care is under scrutiny in Congress and statehouses. internal-truncator, Federal-State Relations (US), Foster Care, Children and Childhood, Social Security (US), Social Security Administration, California, Minnesota, United States A longstanding practice of using a child’s federal survivor and disability benefits to defray the cost of foster care is under scrutiny in Congress and statehouses. NYT > Business