but but but..............................

I think people like that should be taken off the system for 6 months and told they need to support themselves before we can help. I bet your ass she finds a job in no time

that is a great idea if you can get all the states to do it.

She can party but not use contraception?

In Ohio.... the mother can receive three years of ADC cash and up to five if she meets really narrow criteria. However, the children receive it until they are 18, depending upon the income of the parent. If they live with another relative, they also receive it until they are eighteen, regardless of the level of income of the person caring for them. This means the children are always entitled to the funds... no matter what. Just the parent gets excluded after the deadline/timeline expires.

ADC funds are federal, and the states are allowed leeway as to how they are doled out. Usually they are divided up on a county or district status. They are tracked via the computer linked systems, so all states can figure out how much of those months have been used.

First of all she's nuts. Two is more than enough. Some people should be sterilized at birth.

if someone wants 100 kids and can support them without the government doing it...got for it. the government shouldn't be responsible for the parents lack of control though

Agreed... but it is cheaper to pay for the kids through welfare than by removing them into relative or foster care.

Here is an interesting fact... there are more people collecting SSI and SSDI or a combo than there are people on welfare. A large number of that is fraudulent.

I'd rather the money go to children.

I want a check too

true lilth. there is fraud everywhere. i know many people on welfare when they could work instead. welfare should be a way of helping someone to get on their feet, not a career and the kids suffer for it. I don't work at the moment because I take care of my chronically ill sister. she collects disability because she can't work to help her family out. there is good and bad everywhere you go

That is not true. Each kid adds about 100 dollars to the welfare payment and about 100 dollars on foodstamps.

This is not the norm. She has mental health issues obviously.

It is sad when people use the mentally unwell as examples of the "wrongly" used welfare system.

I ran a caseload and my fraud ratio was very low. So this statement is not true either.

I guess people do not have enough to worry about in their own lives that they have so much time to sit in judgement of others and what bad things should happen to others because YOU do not approve of THEIR lifestyle.

what isn't true about it? I believe i said I KNOW many people. and there is fraud everywhere. i didn't say anything about the ratio

I think that is a wildly untrue assumption on both ends. How can you assume she has mental issues? Why not just assume she is a drug addict? Or mentally retarded? Jeesh.

but is it THEIR lifestyle when tax dollars are paying for it?

Well you know what one leg said to the other...

Hey Long Time No SEE!!

Again I will say this example is not the norm nor is the "existance of fraud everywhere". If people actually worked a welfare caseload like I did they would know the truth of these statements and I know they are not true.

As for her mental health, it is obvious she has problems mentally. You cannot see that? Or are you too busy worrying about the possible money spent on her? Which is more important mental health or money?

I think we can all safely assume she had sex and got pregnant. A lot!