Elimination of the AFDC eligibility requirement for foster care maintenance payments for children placed in a foster family home

Section 472(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 14 672(a)) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking Each State and inserting Subject to paragraph (5), each State; and (2) by adding at the end the following: (5) Elimination of the AFDC eligibility requirement for children placed in a foster family home Beginning on the first day of the first fiscal year beginning on or after the date of the enactment of the Promoting Permanency Through Kinship Families Act, the AFDC eligibility requirement of paragraph (3) shall no longer apply with respect to a child who has been removed from the home of a relative or a caretaker into foster care and placed in a foster family home. On and after such date, each State with a plan approved under this part shall make foster care maintenance payments on behalf of each child who has been removed from the home of a relative or caretaker into foster care and placed in a foster family home (without regard to whether such removal and placement occurred before, on, or after such date of enactment, if the removal and foster care placement met, and continues to meet, the requirements of paragraph (2))..