The Trump administration has re-emphasized its warnings to states over a widely used practice that involves children in foster care losing their Social Security benefit checks. In an interview with NPR , an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Adams said that these benefits "might be the last resources that your deceased parents could leave behind for their children." "It's morally shocking to me and it's morally corrupt," he added. This comes after