Academia, Research, and Publications

Amy Harfeld, Five Steps to Ensure Your Clients Are Benefiting from Their Federal Benefits, ABA Children's Rights Litigation, Summer 2022 (Volume 24, Issue 4)

The Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act Fails to Improve Foster Youth’s Awareness of their Federal Benefits, Abigail Mitchell, Children's Legal Rights Journal, 42 CHILD.’S LEGAL RTS. J. 52 (2021)

Reforming Foster Care's Social Security Benefits System, Ian Marx, Building the Path Forward for Change in the Child Welfare System, Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute's Foster Youth Internship Program (July 2021; Edition 14).

Who is Benefiting from Your Clients’ Benefits? Preserving the Social Security Disability and Survivor Benefits of Youth in Foster Care, Amy Harfeld, The Guardian, National Association of Counsel for Children (Vol. 43, No. 4; Winter 2021)

Jordan Carpenter '21, The Use of Social Security Benefits for Children In New York City Foster Care, (2021)

Florida Law Review Forum (2019)
Stop Foster Care Agencies from Taking Children’s Resources, by Daniel L. Hatcher

Cambridge University Press (2019)

Holes in the Safety Net: States Diverting Funds from the Poor, by Daniel L. Hatcher

University of Baltimore School of Law (2012)
Purpose vs. Power: Parens Patriae and Agency SelfInterest, by Daniel L. Hatcher

The Fleecing of Foster Children — How We Confiscate Their Assets and Undermine Their Financial Security, Children's Advocacy Institute (2011)

Foster Children Paying for Foster Care, Professor Daniel L. Hatcher, University of Baltimore School of Law, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 1797 (2006)

Kristina Rosinsky and Sarah Catherine Williams, Special Savings Accounts Can Help Child Welfare Agencies Conserve Social Security Benefits (Jan. 16, 2024)