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Jeanette
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 1:08 pm
Barbara wrote: | How?
In New York, the most that you can receive per foster child is $709/month, or $8,508 per year.
The maximum food stamps you can receive are, what, not quite $200/month for the first person, less for each additional person. So we'll put it at $200, just to be generous. TANF, AIUI, has lifetime limits AND requires you to work. But at the max, its around $770. So between the two, you've got $11,640.
Or total of $20,148 per foster child.
Where is the additional $40,000 coming from? |
I'm not talking about foster care.
I'm talking about a single mother on welfare.
She can get: food stamps, housing, WIC, medicaid, welfare payments and subsidized childcare, plus a few other programs I may be forgetting, and there's the EIC.
If you choose to work instead and your salary is, say, $45k, you are also paying taxes and you're paying all these expenses out of pocket. So welfare mom comes out ahead. That's why it's called the welfare cliff.
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MagentaYenta
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 1:17 pm
Jeanette wrote: | I'm not talking about foster care.
I'm talking about a single mother on welfare.
She can get: food stamps, housing, WIC, medicaid, welfare payments and subsidized childcare, plus a few other programs I may be forgetting, and there's the EIC.
If you choose to work instead and your salary is, say, $45k, you are also paying taxes and you're paying all these expenses out of pocket. So welfare mom comes out ahead. That's why it's called the welfare cliff. |
And yet the claim of $60K per year is still unsubstantiated.
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newmom1987
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 4:02 pm
I was hoping this thread would be about a job my baby could do. (modeling? He is so cute!) We could use the money!
lol
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Iymnok
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 4:13 pm
newmom1987 wrote: | I was hoping this thread would be about a job my baby could do. (modeling? He is so cute!) We could use the money!
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I thought so too! The sad part being the mother blowing the money on something frivolous.
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nyer1
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 4:18 pm
Disclaimer: I only read the first post of the the thread
The sad reality is that there are probably frum Jews who do this too
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chaiz
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Mon, Feb 23 2015, 4:30 pm
Jeanette wrote: |
I'm talking about a single mother on welfare.
She can get: food stamps, housing, WIC, medicaid, welfare payments and subsidized childcare, plus a few other programs I may be forgetting, and there's the EIC.
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Wait, is not the EIC for those who work? Or can an accountant tax professional correct me, please?
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MagentaYenta
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Tue, Feb 24 2015, 1:28 am
chaiz wrote: | Wait, is not the EIC for those who work? Or can an accountant tax professional correct me, please? |
I'm pretty sure you can be working poor and qualify for the EIC.
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marina
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Tue, Feb 24 2015, 2:20 am
Jeanette wrote: | I'm not talking about foster care.
I'm talking about a single mother on welfare.
She can get: food stamps, housing, WIC, medicaid, welfare payments and subsidized childcare, plus a few other programs I may be forgetting, and there's the EIC.
If you choose to work instead and your salary is, say, $45k, you are also paying taxes and you're paying all these expenses out of pocket. So welfare mom comes out ahead. That's why it's called the welfare cliff. |
Could you actually give an example, backed up by citations? What state are you talking about? How many kids? How are you getting subsidized childcare if you're not working? That doesn't usually happen.
And a single mom with 45K in salary? Hey, depending on how many kids she has and what state she lives in, she will likely be eligible for many of the above benefits as well. So I have no idea what you are talking about.
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DrMom
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Tue, Feb 24 2015, 2:21 am
newmom1987 wrote: | I was hoping this thread would be about a job my baby could do. (modeling? He is so cute!) We could use the money!
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I thought it was going to be about child labor in the Third World.
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