{"id":130939,"date":"2026-08-06T05:03:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/gianforte-announces-state-to-end-orphan-tax\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:11:41","modified_gmt":"2029-01-22T05:11:41","slug":"gianforte-announces-state-to-end-orphan-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/06\/gianforte-announces-state-to-end-orphan-tax\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Gianforte Announces State To End Orphan Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Greg Gianforte has announced the state of Montana will end the Orphan  Tax, or the practice of diverting Social Security  survivor benefits from foster youth, following a call from the Administration  for Children and Families at the U.S. Department  of Health and Human Services.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cNo child in foster care should have the government  raid the benefits they deserve,\u201d Gianforte said. \u201cMontana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131123,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130939\/revisions\/131123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130939"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130939"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}