Drug deaths and economic impacts.
Make benefits available to grandparents stepping up to care for grandchildren due to drug overdoses/incarcerations.
A lot of families are reeling from deaths and incarceration due to the drug epidemic.
We bury our children and live with the prison sentences of our children, then we step up to raise our grandchildren. We have adopted our oldest grandchildren due to incarceration of both of their parents. With uncertantity we adopted in the state of SC fearing our son won’t make it out of his spiral alive.
I am retired with a small pension, my husband is still toiling in a steel mill because we need the insurance on the twin boys we take care of.
We have too much income to qualify for any state benefits, $78 too much for reduced lunch is just one example.