U.S. Code » Title 42 » Chapter CHAPTER 7— SOCIAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES › Part Part E— Federal Payments for Foster Care, Prevention, and Permanency

42 U.S.C. § 670

Congressional declaration of purpose; authorization of appropriations

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For the purpose of enabling each State to provide, in appropriate cases, foster care and transitional independent living programs for children who otherwise would have been eligible for assistance under the State’s plan approved under part A (as such plan was in effect on June 1, 1995), adoption assistance for children with special needs, kinship guardianship assistance, and prevention services or programs specified in section 671(e)(1) of this title, there are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this part. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Secretary, State plans under this part.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 246 cases (36 in the last 5 years), 1985–2026 · leading case: Charlie H. v. Whitman, 83 F. Supp. 2d 476 (D.N.J. 2000).
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Charlie H. v. Whitman, 83 F. Supp. 2d 476 (D.N.J. 2000). · cites it 7× “§§ 620-627 deal with the program established to supply federal funds to states for child welfare services and 42 U.S.C. §§ 670 -679a deal with the program established to supply federal funds to states for foster care and adoption assistance.”
In the Interest of As, 322 P.3d 263 (Haw. 2014). · cites it 8× “The ICA did not address the authorities DHS cited in its Opening Brief: Title IV- 17 *** FOR PUBLICATION IN WEST’S HAWAI #I REPORTS AND PACIFIC REPORTER *** E of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. §§ 670 to 679c (2011)); Section 5 of the Personal Responsibility and Work…”
In re Eden F., 738 A.2d 141 (Conn. 1999). · cites it 3× “Thus, our interpretation of § 17a-112 as not requiring the commissioner to prove reasonable efforts at reunification does not contravene the public policy declared by the legislature in § 17a-101.”
N.Y.S. Citizens' Coal. for Child. v. Poole, 922 F.3d 69 (2d Cir. 2019). · cites it 2× “Statutory Background The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq. , is Spending Clause legislation directed at state administration of foster care and adoption assistance services.”
Nicholson v. Scoppetta, 820 N.E.2d 840 (NY 2004). “10 These changes were apparently necessary to comport with federal requirements under title IV-E of the Social Security Act ( 42 USC §§ 670 -679D, which mandated that federal “foster care maintenance payments may be made on behalf of otherwise eligible children who were removed…”
Cynthia D. v. Superior Court, 851 P.2d 1307 (Cal. 1993). · cites it 2× “(See 42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq.) It was designed to "lessen the emphasis on foster care placement and to encourage greater efforts to find permanent homes for children either by making it possible for them to return to their families or by placing them in adoptive homes.”
White v. Davis, 68 P.3d 74 (Cal. 2003). · cites it 2× “), (2) foster care and adoption programs ( 42 U.S.C. §§ 670 -679b), (3) child support programs ( 42 U.”
Kenny A. ex rel. Winn v. Perdue, 218 F.R.D. 277 (N.D. Ga. 2003). · cites it 3× “Motion to Amend Complaint Plaintiffs seek to add an additional claim to their cause of action under the federal Adoption Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 670 et seq., alleging that State Defendants systematically fail to provide foster care maintenance payments that are sufficient to cover the…”
In Re Ta.l. in Re A.L. in Petition of R.W. & A.W. in Re Petition of E.A.A.H. & T.L., 149 A.3d 1060 (D.C. 2016). · cites it 2× “Baby Girl,94 there was no indication that any Justice thought it vulnerable to a substantive due process challenge for its failure to require a finding of parental unfitness.”
Pedreira v. Kentucky Baptist Homes for Child., Inc., 579 F.3d 722 (6th Cir. 2009). · cites it 2× “Even considering the proposed second amended complaint, as the district court did, the question before us is whether the plaintiffs’ invocation of Social Security Act’s Title IV-E and Supplemental Security Income programs, codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 670 -679b and 42 U.S.C. §§ 1381…”
In Re Mason, 782 N.W.2d 747 (Mich. 2010). “The DHS's deficiencies in these regards can be the cause of millions of dollars in federal funding losses as a penalty for failing to meet state child welfare requirements addressed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services Child and Family Services review…”
California State Foster Parent Ass'n v. Wagner, 624 F.3d 974 (9th Cir. 2010). · cites it 3× “42 U.S.C. § 670 et seq. The CWA spells out the specific foster care provider expenses that states’ payments are supposed to cover.”
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