That’s an insult beyond belief
And I think the $750 could be stolen by illegal alien gangs.
Just thought of a scene in The Empire of Time by Crawford Kilian (little known Del Rey 1978 SF book).
In the dark American future a woman trying to barely keeping going with her child is robbed but struggles on. Then a couple of days later, the child sees another group of thugs wait for her and rob her of her remaining amount of money. Obviously what they needed to survive.
This time, she sobs, holds her face and drops to her knees in hopeless despair.