House advances H.657 to aid unaccompanied youth, protect certain benefits and tighten restraint rules H.657 was advanced after committee reports and floor amendments. The bill removes Reach Up asset limits, bars DCF from offsetting some foster children's Social Security benefits, creates a certification process for 16–17-year-old unaccompanied youth to obtain IDs and services, and imposes new statutory standards, documentation and reporting for secure transport and restraint and seclusion.

Vermont's H.657 is set to transform the lives of unaccompanied homeless youth by eliminating barriers and enhancing protections—will it be the change they desperately need?

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