Posted on 02/26/2014 12:31:25 PM PST by onyx
Now, don’t tell me that welfare recipients aren’t innovative! No reason to stand on your feet waiting to get your check. Just put your flip-flops next in line and go back and sit on your ass. What a great country!
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With all the talk about unemployment benefits and welfare, it’s important to understand just how much money we’re talking about.
In 35 states, welfare, housing assistance and other benefits pays more than a minimum wage job, according to a new study by the Cato Institute. The study also found that in 13 states, the payout is more than $15 per hour.
Of course, this study doesn’t take into account that not everyone on public assistance receives all of the programs. But if they did, their payout would be significantly higher than even a starting teacher’s salary in 11 states or a computer programmer in 3 states.
The states with the highest welfare payouts – more than $20 per hour – are Hawaii, with payments equaling $29.13 per hour, DC at $24.43 per hour, Massachusetts at $24.30 , Connecticut at $21.33, New York at $21.01 per hour, New Jersey at $20.89 per hour, Rhode Island at $20.83 per hour and Vermont at $20.36 per hour.
Critics say this ignores real situations. The study “does make a lot of assumptions about what benefits a typical family receives and argues that all the means-tested programs should be included in their fictional family profile,” said Catherine Lawrence, an assistant professor at the University of Albany’s School of Social Welfare. “”Research with actual families shows the extreme financial strain of living on welfare or low-wage work; neither welfare nor low-wage employment alone do a very good job supporting the health and well-being of families with children.”
It varies from state to state, but most states’ welfare payouts top out after about 60 months in one lifetime.
The study was called “The Work Versus Welfare Trade-Off, 2013, authored by Michael Tanner and Charles Hughes.
How do these statistics make you, the reader, feel?
You’re right!
I looked at the comments when I posted the article and also at the comments at FaceBook where the article is also posted.
GREAT IDEA!
Surprisingly, Wyoming is pretty high on the list. It pays more in benefits than Pennsylvania.
Wyoming surpirsed me, also.
Perhaps there’s not a whole host on welfare...
Grandma volunteers to be the foster parent (family members get preference). Grandma then gets funds from the foster care agency for taking care of the kid. In New York, for example, the basic reimbursment rate is $17-$23/day depending on age. If the child is deemed "special needs", the rate can go up from $37 to $57/day (about a third of foster kids are judged "special needs").
That adds up to a yearly $6,205 to $20,805 PER CHILD, just in BASELINE payments. This does not include the free school meals, clothing allowances, and other payments. So grandma can stay home with the kids as her "job", while mom gets welfare for the kids which she keeps and does not put up for welfare.
Legal Plunder Has Many Names
Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole — with their common aim of legal plunder — constitute socialism.
/Bastiat 1801-1850
Price is important but so is volume. How many people in each state are using such programs?
Don’t forget subsidized child care here in New York...
Excerpt:
ALBANY — The daughter of County Legislator Wanda Willingham surrendered to authorities Tuesday on charges she defrauded Social Services of more than $2,000 regarding day care for her four children.
Fay Willingham, 31, of Third Street, Albany, turned herself in at the sheriff’s Voorheesville substation around 9 a.m., acting Sheriff Craig Apple said.
She was charged with felony counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, fourth-degree welfare fraud and first-degree offering a false instrument for filing.
It is alleged she did not report to the county Department of Social Services when she took time off from work, and Social Services continued to pay her father, Elijah Willingham, for babysitting her children.
http://blog.timesunion.com/localpolitics/10067/10067/
I have always felt that at least half of the population are truly worthless, prideless, backstabbing bastards, see no reason here to change that point of view.
I agree.
I have no idea.
UGH.
Are these based on a single person? So that, someone with kids would be getting MUCH more? Does this just include money that they receive, or also the value of “free stuff”? Interesting. Thanks for posting.
FRAUD and ABUSE!
Criminals.
When liberals take over a State everything is more expensive due to unions, excessive regulation, etc. My daughter is a single mother and recently moved to Texas from Oregon. In Oregon she rec’d food stamps and “help” to pay for her daycare while she worked. Now she is so happy because she can afford to pay for her own food and daycare because everything is not so expensive in Texas.
Well if they’re dumb enough to vote for Obama, it makes sense that they’re dumb enough to feed FULL cans into a recycling machine.
It would be nice for the families if the figures in that report were true and accurate. But, they aren’t.
I’m especially concerned about Wyoming’s figures. I have a family member who lives in that state, and she is UNABLE to rent even an apartment because there are NO rental subsidies there. The average rent where she lives is $800/month, and they do not adjust on a sliding scale. That figure is considered to be ‘’affordable rent’’. She was forced to move out of the state. Nor did she collect any form of welfare. She just doesn’t earn enough money to afford that price of rent. She did her homework.
Chances are, they compiled some of their numbers something like this:
If you earned $250,000.00/year, you can afford to pay $20K in health insurance, therefore, that’s what medicaid is worth.
And if the average rent for a one bedroom apartment is $800/month x 12 months, and you are subsidized, then you are given $9600 per year in subisidies. But, they also fail to add in your own out of pocket contribution. You can go to the section 8 HUD website to see how it actually works. You have to pay out 1/3 of your monthly income.
Anyway, the figures don’t add up.
Sometime back there was a story about a welfare type who bought a case of bottled water, poured it all down a drain in order to get the bottle deposit.
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