Posted on 10/01/2016 11:33:06 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The move was sought by local East African immigrants. Immigrants traveling for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship which will reduce their rent to $75 a month while they are gone. The Star Tribune reported:
Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants.
The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.
Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands. He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States.
Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two.
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Were fools for working
Where are they getting the money for plane fare and extended vacations?
This is so wrong.
PING—Get a load of THIS crap!!
We are bigger fools for permitting these asshats to be elected, and these other asshats migrating here!!
Just HOW did the US of A get SO effed up?
And these ‘people’ are traveling back to their, ‘homeland’ to do what, exactly?
We’re So Screwed.
Wait, immigrants are getting supplemental social security??
If you are an immigrant, THIS is your homeland.
I bet many of these people are here as “refugees”, they got in because they feared for their life in their homeland.
Not if they go back for vacation.
Cancel their green cards and let them stay there.
Round ‘em up and move ‘em out!
Deport all of the slime.
Gee, can I get the taxpayers to fund my vacation?
Haven’t had one in years, working too hard to pay all the taxes.
This seems fair. I remember hearing stories of all the Irish heading back home to check on their potato fields. /sarc
“... traveling back to their, ‘homeland’ to do what, exactly?”
To fetch their three other wives and get them signed up for welfare.
Just like the refugees in Europe.
Can you imagine Jews fleeing Nazi Germany but returning for a vacation every so often?
Absolute rubbish! Don’t try this if you are white and born in America. Effing scumbags.
“Just HOW did the US of A get SO effed up?”
Bush. Clinton. Bush. Obama.
When you have a string of Presidents and their lackeys dedicated to replacing the historic American people with aliens this is what you get.
Welcome to the brave new world.
You mean your county doesn’t lower your property tax for the time while you are away?
Why are the governments so desperate to take care of these people?
Oh, yeah.
Once an immigrant gets legal status in the USA, like a Green Card, he can apply to bring in every person in his immediate family.
The process can take years, but once your elderly parents arrive, they are eligible for SSI and Medicaid and every other benefit a natural born citizen can get.
This is not new. It was in effect in 1984, during Reagan’s presidency, although I imagine the number of people using it was much smaller.
And Medicaid
Hey. It is expensive to attend Radical Islamic Jihad School in Somalia.
I am so pleased the Minnesota taxpayers are paying for the Somalians schooling or maybe it is simply a vacation trip to see their fellow Radical Islamic Jihadists.
(sarc)
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