[MamaTexan]

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.]

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.

[Froufrou]

I was on the other side of the desk before, too. They turned me down and, like you, I dumped the deadbeat.

I saw a few ladies who were proud to return the money when they were on their feet again. Very few.

It was my pride and joy to have the best 'arrest' record in my day...not real arrest, but I was able to send out investigators to see if the dad was in the house or not. I never missed and they would talk about us [workers] like kids talk about their teachers.

I'm proud to say those assigned to me dreaded it, with good cause. I used the taxpayer's dollars to weed out as many as I could.