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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
In 1971 when I immigrated you had to have a good employment record and be willing to work...
you were deported if you applied for any kind of government assistance...
If these morons can pay their way to freakin’ africa, why don’t they pay their own rent? Are all people in MN insane or what? Welfare bums need vacays, I guess. Isn’t government dependency grand?
$700 one way to Kenya
Minnesota taxpayers should pay for that too. It's only fair.
Exactly, what kind of desperate “refugees” are able to fly back and forth to their “homeland” at US taxpayer expense..... those who are supposedly here because they fear for their lives in their countries of origin???? US taxpayers are being played for fools, courtesy of the vile DemocRAT and RINO parties.
No, that's wrong. We still have a Constitution, and some semblance of States' rights and local government. It would be relatively easy to re-form a more Constitutionally correct, and limited national government afterwards.
If they can go back they can STAY.
My county does. Not only that, I get to stop paying my mortgage, my utilities, my water, my gas, my electricity, my sewer, my trash, my house insurance and my gardener. My equity keeps going up while I’m away, so it more than pays for my vacation. The longer I stay away, the more I make. The deal I negotiated is SO good, I’m thinking of going on a perpetual vacation. Life is good.
I wonder if ISIS lobbied Minneapolis Democrats for this recruiting incentive.
Couldn’t imagine staying in Minnesota if they’re that careless with hard EARNED dollars. This is perhaps the greatest insult yet.
So these people could conceivably be going back to wage jihad in Somalia or some other hellhole, and we’re paying their rent for them? Do I have that about right?
Jihad with benefits, insanity rules.
More terrorists means a bigger Homeland Security budget.
So both parties love this stuff!
If they can afford international travel, they can afford a few months’ rent.
I think they charge extra...
Women voting.
...combined with the 17th Amendment.
I think they charge extra...
My grandfather immigrated to the US in 1899 from Denmark. I have a copy of his ‘papers’. He had to prove he had relatives who would help support him (the gov’t, US or local, sure as hell wasn’t going to) until he could support himself. He got a job with the railroad, learned English, married, raised 4 American sons who weren’t raised speaking Danish, and lived to a ripe old age of 86. Unless you count his Railroad Retirement, he never got a dime from the government and didn’t expect one.
Yep, which wouldn’t have been possible without women voting either.
Our sap-happy US government cannot assure the public that it is now enforcing immigration laws already on the books,
(1) that foreign nationals must at least avoid criminal activity,
(2) that foreigners must stay off public assistance,
(3) that the US govt is disinclined to grant "asylum" (means a free ride on the US gravy train and endless SS payments) to “fearful refugees” from war-torn Islamic regions,
(4) on-the-book govt mandates that force struggling taxpayers to foot the bill for the refugees to go back and forth between America and their supposedly hostile homelands on the taxpayers' dime.
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THERE'S MORE---Bostonians were enraged upon discovering THEY footed the travel bills of the entire Chechneyan family to attend the trail of the surviving bomber brother.
As they planned the bombing, the family received "every conceivable public benefit available out there" amounting to some 100 thousand dollars.
The evil Tsarnaevs worked the system bigtime; the entire family pocketed, including:
(1) the two bombing suspects' parents (mother later absconded--wanted for shoplifting),
(2) the two suspects themselves,
(3) their trouble-making sisters (one arrested for bomb threats),
(4) the widow of the suspect killed, and,
(5) their child.
Could also include benefits for their Chechen "student" pals who tampered w/ bombing evidence (one is now in jail, the other going to trial).
(Excerpt) Read more at wcvb.com ...
SOURCE http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/hearing-set-to-look-at-tsarnaev-family-welfare- benefits/-/11971628/19933058/-/9yagjz/-/index.html#ixzz2RtfE87js
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