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I got a message from someone from high school a few weeks ago simply saying “hello.” My first thought was “you didn't seem like the Pyramid Scheme type, but here we go.” I honestly expected her to give me a sales pitch, I'd turn her down, and then we'd carry on with our lives. So I messaged her back, saying “Hi! What's up?”“Am cool and you?” At that point I knew I wasn't talking to who I originally thought. I met this girl in AP classes in high school, and she was very smart and well-spoken. That's not how she talks, at all. However, since this person was impersonating someone I knew, I wanted to dig in a little bit.“I'm pretty good.”“How have you been doing?” I just told you, but whatever.“I'm doing pretty good. What about you?”“Have been doing good here also.”“That's good!” I felt stuck. I didn't know what else to say.“That reminds me, I was wondering if you participate in UN Health and Human Service benefits?” Okay, here we go. I was working on updating my internship's referral log at the time and knew a fair bit about the US Department of Human Services and my state's DHS, but hadn't come across a UN Health and Human Service anything. I Googled it and found nothing.“I've never heard of it before.”“UN Health and Human Service Cash Benefit. It's from the federal government. Many people haven't heard of it.” Once I recevied that message, I set my phone down and laughed. It felt like Christmas. You mean this is a CASH benefit program? I'm a social work major and spend a lot of time in particular studying local resources. There aren't just cash benefit programs, and if there was, the communities they would be implemented in would be in an uproar. And the federal government is handing out CASH, and lots of people haven't heard of it? I now know I have to keep pushing this, because this was my confirmation that this is a scam.“What does it do?”“It provides federal assistance to needy families and even individuals in many states. The funny thing is if you don't claim yours it will go back to the government.” That's not even kind of how this works. The IRS doesn't review every single citizen's taxes to see if they qualify for social services and then set aside money for resources for them; no one has time for that. If you need help and want it, that's 100% on you. No money goes back to the government if people don't claim potential resources.“Okay. But is the money designated for anyone specific, like WIC?” I wanted to see what this individual would do after I threw a curveball at them. I sat for the next ten minutes and watch as the typing symbol came and went.“It is just like WIC. But the money belongs to you If you apply and you qualify. One thing about this program is that you do not have to pay it back!” Fascinating selling point considering you don't have to pay most welfare programs, like WIC, back. But whatever.“What do I need to do to get my money?”“Yes you apply and see if you qualify.”“How do I apply?”Then they explained how to apply: you call an agent and they'll walk you through it, and sent me the name and number. You NEVER apply for a welfare program over the phone. Most programs require the Social Security cards of everyone in the household, 6-12 months proof of income, proof of residency, and proof of citizenship. Because of the sensitive nature of this information, the application process is always done in an office. So they wanted me to call and give proof of residency, Social Security, information about my employment, and probably my bank info since this is supposedly a cash program, and that was all to be done over the phone? But I finally had identifying information, and now I know how to file a report with the FBI.

The foster care system in the USA varies somewhat from state to state, however there are numerous laws and regulations which establish a similar framework for the entire country. The Department of Human Services (DHS) is the federal branch which manages Child Welfare in the USA. If you'd like to read these federal laws you can find them here: https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/laws-policies/federal/I was a foster parent for seven years total (5 as a medical foster parent and 2 a few years later as I adopted my daughter's younger sister), I worked as a social worker for six years, I adopted three children from this system and I currently work in a law office that defends parents whose children have been removed. It's not a perfect system but here is my best attempt to summarize.----------------------Anyone can call their local child welfare hotline and report concerns of abuse, some people are required to do so by law, those people are called Mandatory Reporters. Basically a mandatory reporter is someone who comes in regular contact with children like doctors and medical professionals, teachers and school officials, police officers, therapists, and social workers. Those regulations are spelled out here: https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/manda.pdf#page=1&view=Professionals%20Required%20to%20ReportOnce the call is made a hotline screener investigates by calling collateral contacts and evaluating the reported concerns. The screener can simply close the call at screening (this is the most common occurrence), assign the case to a five day investigation or assign it to an immediate response (which means the social worker would need to make contact with the child within 24 hours).The investigating social worker has three options for coding the alleged abuse: close as unfounded, close as unable to determine or open a case with a founded allegation. Just as most calls are closed at screening, most allegations are unfounded and closed at this early point.If an allegation is founded then DHS opens a case with the family but that doesn't mean that the courts are necessarily involved. Most families choose to work voluntarily with DHS: they accept help with drug treatment, or they arrange for a safe adult to move in and help care for the kids while the parent addresses their problem issue, or they kick the sex offender or physically abusive person out of the home, etc. DHS calls this 'safety planning' and most of the time a family works within a safety plan to ameliorate the concerning issue and the case is closed without ever entering the legal arena.Even when a case is court involved it does not mean the children are necessarily removed from their parents care, but this is where the numbers start to change. About half of all court involved cases have children in foster care. However, in all court involved cases the state is asking the court to take jurisdiction of the children and to give temporary custody to DHS. This means that the parent no longer has legal custody of their child even if the children are still living in their home.There are four ways that children can legally be removed from the physical custody of their parents. First, the police can take temporary custody of the child and remove them for no more than one business day without a court hearing (in my state) and no more than one week federally. The police remove when abuse signs are clear, when there is a clear and imminent danger present for the child, when the parents are arrested and they have no person to come care for the children, and so on. Second, the social worker can have a judge sign a protective custody order, this often happens when a mother gives birth to a new child while her others are already in foster care or when there's an immediate risk to the child. Third, DHS can file a petition alleging abuse and ask for removal, in this instance the parent has a chance (with a court appointed lawyer) to argue why they think this should not occur. And finally, if the court has already taken jurisdiction and given temporary custody to DHS they can remove a child from the parent but they are then required to go back to court and prove that DHS made reasonable efforts to maintain the family structure before removing the child (this is aptly named a Reasonable Efforts hearing).Once the child is removed from the parent there is a timeline for reunification which clicks into gear. This timeline is mandated by The Adoption Safe Families Act (ASFA) which mandates that a child be in foster care no more than 12 months from the date of jurisdiction or 14 months from the date of removal. (This chart explains the timeline well: https://www.isc.idaho.gov/cp/docs/asfa_timeline.pdf) ASFA was created in 1997 to address the issue of children lingering in foster care. The parent is required to make changes and the state is required (generally) to make reasonable efforts to assist with those changes. There are some instances where this does not apply, Extreme Conduct cases (for example if a parent was convicted of murdering a former child or if a parent has prior involuntary terminations) and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases.Extreme conduct cases are rare, even if a parent has prior involuntary terminations they are generally able to work to keep their child if they are able to demonstrate the changes made since that occurred. ICWA cases are special, the USA finally recognized the deplorable way we treated native people by adopting out their children and sending them to boarding schools, in essence by deciding that their culture was sub-standard. To address this the state is required to make active efforts instead of reasonable efforts (i/e, instead of making a referral for a psychological evaluation they must also provide transportation and support for said evaluation). Also, the tribes have authority as sovereign nations to take jurisdiction of the child or simply become a legal part of their case. In those cases the ASFA timelines become much more elastic and can be ignored by the tribes completely if they so desire. (Read more about ICWA here: http://www.nicwa.org/Indian_Child_Welfare_Act/)Once the removal occurs, there is federal regulation and pressure to keep that child with relatives. DHS is required to make a thorough relative search and to certify any relatives who are willing and able to meet foster care requirements so that the child can be placed in their home as quickly as possible. DHS can make an emergency certification in a few hours (the family would need to then take the usual steps to move from emergency placement to regular foster home within a set timeline) and if at all possible children are kept with family (or close friends) to reduce the trauma of foster care.Once a child is placed in foster care there's a requirement to maintain contact and allow for visitation between the parent and child. The general minimum is one hour per week of supervised contact and initially these take place in a formal setting but not always. Often a relative cannot be a placement resource but they can supervise visitation and those visits do not occur in a formal setting. In my state there are people whose sole job is to coordinate, transport, and supervise visitation. Their job is to provide clear unbiased observations about the interactions between parent and child. As a parent progresses, visitation increases in duration and frequency and supervision requirements lessen. If a parent spirals further downward then visitation can be stopped temporarily or completely.Once the child is in their foster home my state requires that the foster parent take the child for a mental health screening, a thorough medical examination and often a dental examination as well. Children in foster care are generally placed on state medical insurance (Medicaid or the state's equivalent) for the duration although some parents are able to maintain coverage of their child (it's just not the norm because at this point most parents are unemployed or not working at a place with insurance benefits). Parents are billed for child support to recoup the medical coverage and the foster care fees, however this can be waived by the courts.Foster homes vary greatly, some are amazing and the parents take the child into their family as their own while others are dirty and smelly and downright cruel. There's no way to make a perfect system when dealing with fallable humans, foster parent lie, certifiers have biases, stresses from raising difficult children can warp people in unexpected ways. It's a hard truth.Most kids go back to their parents. After three or nine or even fifteen months (an extension to ASFA timelines can be made if the parent is making sustainable progress and a return looks possible within the next 6 months). As I said visitation generally increases and then a trial home placement occurs and the family is watched and supported to ensure things remain stable for up to a year before closing the case.Some parents can't or won't address the issues which brought their kids into foster care, in those cases the state then moves to terminate parental rights. A new petition is filed, this time instead of asking for jurisdiction of the child the state asks for termination of parental rights. The parents are again appointed legal counsel (generally the same person who has been their lawyer all along but not always) and they have a right to a trial to fight the termination. Once a case gets to that point most parents recognize their inability to care for their child and relinquish their parental rights. A trial is rather rare, if you look at 100 calls to the hotline maybe .25 of those end in a termination trial. Often those trials fold within the first day as the parents watch the state lay out all of their transgressions and failures, most of us would struggle with such a public display of our personal troubles so I think it makes sense.In most states a termination of parental rights does not occur unless a new adoptive home has been designated. That means a family has been matched with a child and deemed suitable to adopt them. Nobody wants children to be legal orphans cut off from family ties so those ties are only cut if new ones are secured. Even then, adoptive parents are encouraged to mediate some level of ongoing contact with the biological family if it's at all safe and possible because that's what is best for kids almost all of the time.I know that was long but I hope it helps you see the system more clearly. Please ask questions if anything seems weird or confusing because I know I left a lot out, there's just so much I could say!! Thanks for the A2A.

valid for work only with DHS authorization clause usually found on SSN card for those who are on H-1B visas. I know because I still have one (never replaced my old SSN card, mine says INS instead of DHS) and no, the number on that card is only good when you are/were on H-1B work position. It is not your work authorization in the US.If the UBER has an international referral program, try getting on it and get paid in your local currency and not get bothered by SSN. Otherwise, forget about this venture. It will get you into trouble in the future.