Foster care: survivor benefits
What they say
She says she spent three years advocating to let foster children keep their social security survivor benefits.
“For the past 3 years, I advocated to let foster children keep their social security survivor benefits instead of the state using them to cover foster care costs.”
What the record shows ·
She is the sole sponsor of Senate File 481 (2025), a bill on benefits received by children in foster care, introduced and referred to Health and Human Services on March 3, 2025 with a subcommittee assigned, on which she sat, and no further action. Her post says the change was announced by Governor Reynolds rather than enacted by that bill.
Limit: A sponsor list records bills, not advocacy in other forms, so the three-year span her post claims is not something this record can confirm or contradict: the Legislature lists one bill from her on the subject, introduced in March 2025, and none in either earlier General Assembly. Her post says the change was announced by the Governor rather than enacted by her bill, and this card does not say her advocacy brought it about.