Child Welfare: Structure and Funding of the Adoption Incentives Program along with Reauthorization Issues

Child Welfare: Structure and Funding of theAdoption Incentives Program along withReauthorization Issues 
Summary
Under the Adoption Incentives program (Section 473A of the Social Security Act) states earn
federal bonuses when they increase adoptions of children who are in need of new permanent
families. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have earned a part of the $375
million in Adoption Incentive funds that have been awarded since the program was established as
part of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (ASFA, P.L. 105-89). Funding authorized for
this program has been extended twice since it was established, most recently in 2008 (P.L. 110-
351), but is currently set to expire on September 30, 2013. Congress may act to revise and/or
extend this program in the 113th Congress.

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