“Albert Hawkins, the state’s executive commissioner for health and human services, said it was unclear whether members of the sect have private insurance. He also said that officials have found no evidence that anyone from the sect is receiving any sort of public assistance. “
That certainly disputes the claims of the anti-FLDS activists here that all of the women and children were on welfare.
Speaking of the anti's, Greybeard, where are they? Where are the charges that members of your Cabal claimed would be appearing as soon as the hearings started.
Money gets passed around within this cult per orders from the “prophet”. They certainly have a huge number of women and children on public assistance in Utah and Arizona, and those checks go straight into the “church’s” coffers. You can be sure some of it has ended up at the Texas ranch.
And most of these women and children moved to Texas within the past couple of years. I’ll be very surprised if further investigation doesn’t find that a lot of them are still getting welfare checks sent to their old address. Since Texas still hasn’t pinned down firm IDs on a lot of the women and children, and so many of the surnames are duplicates (and change every time a wife and children get “reassigned”), it would be hard for Texas authorities to trace out of state welfare payments.