# Adoption Assistance

**Agency:** Health & Human Services  
**Account:** Mandatory Programs  
**Source document:** Administration for Children, Families, and Communities · p. 13  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/hhs/adoption-assistance  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 4,222.9 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 4,397.0 |
| FY2027 | request | 4,485.0 |

## Health & Human Services discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.60B, FY2026 $131.10B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Provides funds to states and tribes to subsidize families that adopt children with special needs who cannot return home, preventing long stays in foster care.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Health & Human Services › Administration for Children, Families, and Communities › Mandatory Programs › Foster Care and Permanency


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*