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Old 04-24-2011, 12:39 PM
 
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In the past I received one of those letters requiring one of my family members to do community service and i was curious if there was a way around it? hes currently unemployed and receiving unemployment benefits and looking for jobs currently.
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Old 04-24-2011, 12:48 PM
 
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Not sure if anything can be done about it, but it's nice to see NYCHA attempting to make people earn their keep for a change.
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Old 04-24-2011, 09:40 PM
 
Location: East Rutherford, NJ
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Why not just do it? Is it that awful of a thing to do something positive for your community?
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Old 04-24-2011, 11:35 PM
 
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Like in North Korea?
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Old 04-25-2011, 05:18 AM
 
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In the past I received one of those letters requiring one of my family members to do community service and i was curious if there was a way around it? hes currently unemployed and receiving unemployment benefits and looking for jobs currently.
Unfreakinreal!

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Liberals, Progressives, Socialist, this is the product of your values and policies.

OP,

You and yours need a reality check. Community Service is the least you all can do to pay society back for all you are being given. Don't you think you 'owe' for the housing and money you are receiving?

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Old 04-25-2011, 05:31 AM
 
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In the past I received one of those letters requiring one of my family members to do community service and i was curious if there was a way around it? hes currently unemployed and receiving unemployment benefits and looking for jobs currently.
This has GOT to be a joke!!!! If not, you have some gonads!

You're getting what amounts to free housing, he's getting unemployement benefits and, yet, you don't want to do some simple community service work to GIVE BACK to the community you're sucking off of!

I'm sure he's out looking for a job from 8am to 6pm 5 days a week and just doesn't have the time for community service

I hope you DO get evicted. Then you can pay full, market-value rent and see how hard a time the rest of us who choose not to leech off "the system" have it.
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:10 AM
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In the past I received one of those letters requiring one of my family members to do community service and i was curious if there was a way around it? hes currently unemployed and receiving unemployment benefits and looking for jobs currently.
Those NYCHA community service requirements are poorly enforced at best. NYCHA has a training program for residents to either become groundskeepers or construction workers for their contractors. Go for that instead.
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:15 AM
 
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wait you think that were getting free housing? we pay close to 1.1k for rent and its the same amount that they ask us to pay when he was employed. Its not that hes unwilling to do it, im just curious if he found a job within a week or so would he still be required to do the community service for this month?
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:21 AM
 
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I am still not understanding WHY you would want a way around it????? Why can't he/she do community service when they are not even working?????
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Old 04-25-2011, 07:22 AM
 
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because of the language barrier hes willing to do the community service if he could go and find a place himself to do the community service but not in the area were living at. K Good news Ive just received an call saying they accept his community service hours that he did in a different area.

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