Promoting Permanency Through Kinship Families Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 3
- Latest action
- Sep 26, 2025
What it does
The Promoting Permanency Through Kinship Families Act amends the Social Security Act to strengthen kinship care as a permanency option for children in foster care by requiring states to actively identify and involve relatives or fictive kin in case planning, removing barriers to kinship placements, and supporting caregivers through expanded services and eligibility. It eliminates upper age limits for kinship caregivers, mandates participation in kinship guardianship assistance programs, reduces the required duration of care for eligibility from six to three months, and removes the AFDC eligibility requirement for foster care maintenance payments. The bill also requires criminal record…
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