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This Concurrent Resolution urges the Department of Human Services to immediately stop taking Social Security payments that belong to children in foster care, a practice that nearly all states, including Hawaii, have been doing to cover the costs of their care. Instead, the resolution requests that these payments be placed into savings accounts for the children, which they can then use when they leave foster care, whether by returning to their families, being adopted, or reaching adulthood. This action is inspired by a similar decision made by New York City officials to better support these vulnerable children.