‘Flabbergasted:’ Help for kinship care families passed unanimously, $20M price tag could derail it • Kentucky Lantern

A funding dispute between Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican lawmakers threatens to delay long-awaited financial relief for grandparents and other kinship caregivers who are raising children in Kentucky. 

Beshear signed and says he supports a new law that allows relatives who take temporary custody of a child, when abuse or neglect is suspected, to later become eligible for foster care payments.