Vital Documents Access for Unaccompanied Homeless Youth Act of 2025

This bill creates a federal task force to help unaccompanied homeless youth get vital documents, like Social Security cards, so they can access housing, health care, child welfare, and other services more easily. The task force brings together federal leaders, state officials, and young people under 30 who have lived experience with youth homelessness, and meets every quarter to study what works, fix problems, collect data, and share best practices across agencies. It must be set up within 90 days of the law taking effect .

The task force must send Congress an initial report within one year, outlining barriers youth face without documents, recommending training and policy changes, highlighting successful state and local ideas, and detailing steps to make Social Security cards easier to get. A final report is due within three years, showing what changed, how well it worked, and whether the task force should become permanent. The task force then ends after three years unless extended .

• Who is affected: Unaccompanied homeless youth; federal, state, and local agencies; community groups working on youth homelessness.
• What changes: A cross-agency task force meets quarterly, develops and tests policies, and focuses on easing access to documents—especially Social Security cards—so youth can get services.
• When: Task force set up within 90 days; initial report in 1 year; final report in 3 years; task force ends after 3 years unless made permanent .