We are speaking the same language. One big reason I resigned from welfare was that every time a worker resigned they split the caseload among the rest of us! They actually think it will work to have clients reporting changes and recertifying themselves!
I hate to tell you, but they LIE! [I know, it must be shocking.]
Bottom line: it will cost the people most who can bear it the least - you & me taxpayer and the kids. :o(
I'm just so {not} SHOCKED! :-)
The only experience I had with that sort of thing was many years ago when my (now) very EX husband's sudden lack of enthusiasm for his role as breadwinner forced me to get food stamps so the family could eat.
My caseworker got irate because I refused to sign up for every other 'freebie' under the sun. She apparently thought I was defective for only taking what I felt was absolutely needed to survive.
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Bottom line: it will cost the people most who can bear it the least - you & me taxpayer and the kids. :o(
Again, agreed.
I still never figured out why todays foster care is supposedly better than the orphanage system of our parents and grandparents generation, though.