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Posted on 07/18/2026 6:01:36 PM PDT by Libloather
New York City dished out welfare checks to nearly 865,000 people over the past year — a historic handout that has sent public assistance spending skyrocketing to a record-breaking $2.7 billion, The Post can reveal.
The city’s Department of Social Services served a staggering 864,999 welfare recipients for the 12-month period ending May 30, a whopping 55.7% increase since 2022 and totals the Big Apple hasn’t seen in roughly 30 years, an examination of agency records found.
The city’s taxpayer-funded budget for cash-assistance payments soared even higher — up 72.6%, from $1.57 billion in fiscal 2022 to its current $2.71 billion for the fiscal year that began July 1.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani inherited the welfare crisis from his predecessor Eric Adams — but there’s been little change since the socialist took office in January.
And critics fear it’s only a matter of time before he pushes more millionaires and billionaires out of the Big Apple — and with them jobs – sending welfare rolls even further through the roof.
“This is the Communist Playbook 101: make everyone reliant on the government, so the masses have no choice but to support the people signing their checks,” predicted Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens).
“This is only going to get worse as the Democratic Socialists of America ramp up their tax-the-rich rhetoric and drive even more jobs out of the city. With every job they force out, the far left gets one more person dependent on them. It’s all part of the plan.”
Adams inherited an annual public-assistance caseload totaling 555,311 in 2021, the final year of the administration of former Mayor and avowed Marxist Bill de Blasio, and watched it soar to 864,608 by the time he left office at the end of 2025, records show.
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The Democrat Socialists need their votes to keep office.
Unsustainable.
Obviously, it’s good for Zohran Mamdani so he’ll turn NYC into his fiefdom.
“”””Welfare never goes broke. Odd. “”””
I can’t count how many times I heard that Social Security is soon to go broke. Never a word about the hundreds of billions of dollars the deadbeats get.
Broke?
Actually, Huge Cities and STATES can go Bankrupt.
There is only 1 kind of good Communist.
What percentage are illegals?
865K is just NYC. Doesn’t necessarily even count any state, federal, corporate or charity bennies they are getting.
How many people in New York on Social Security that they paid in to.
Probably 99% of them are muslims the laziest bunch on the planet
U. S. Military. Soviet style
Government contractors. Soviet Style
He did so by maintaining De Blasio's & Adams's policy of not prosecuting scofflaws.
Every since BLM & De Blasio, bus and train fares in NYC have been optional.
The mayor and his merry bandits are looting the city.
Escape from New York is the bumper sticker of the middle class.
Check
The other 49 states fund this. Look at how Covid funds were corrupted — $$ went to every blue states’ general fund; where they were spent on pet projects (after being skimmed by politicos).
Every Fed $$ that NY gets goes into the pockets of NYC.
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