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Hmm. Cheated and lied to qualify for Section 8. does that include landlords who force their tenants to make illegal side payments? What about landlords who get checks for renting out substandard units?
How can any woman NOT know who fathered her children? I suspect that these types of women are in the minority of welfare recipients.
Many years ago, when I worked in Kansas (70's), we were doing a story on welfare and those on it, and we had a lady who at 25, had 8 children, all different ages and under 12. Between the 9 of them, they had 6 different last names. (we didn't ask, as the story was on the process, not who/why someone was on it).
Always wondered if she guessed who the fathers were to assign the names, was married many times for really short periods or what. (none were adopted)
And just to reply before someone makes a minority comment......the lady and all the kids were white.
Again, this is another issue that usually gets tossed in when people bring up the issue of welfare fraud. However, it is not an example of fraud, as someone who has 8 children and no job would easily qualify for government assistance. Now, if we want to question her motives for having so many children, that is an entirely different issue - but it doesn't constitute welfare fraud.
Honestly, I just think people see certain individuals and assume that they are on welfare or that they are cheating the system.
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Originally Posted by plannine
Many years ago, when I worked in Kansas (70's), we were doing a story on welfare and those on it, and we had a lady who at 25, had 8 children, all different ages and under 12. Between the 9 of them, they had 6 different last names. (we didn't ask, as the story was on the process, not who/why someone was on it).
Always wondered if she guessed who the fathers were to assign the names, was married many times for really short periods or what. (none were adopted)
And just to reply before someone makes a minority comment......the lady and all the kids were white.
How can any woman NOT know who fathered her children? I suspect that these types of women are in the minority of welfare recipients.
If that were only true. Do you have any idea of the number of pregnant girls in junior and senior high school who cannot be certain of who fathered their child(ren)? It is truly shocking.
Are you sure? Maybe you should change your name to doctordave.
And then review all your neighbor's medical records, evaluate them in comparison to the Social Security disability regulations, the definition of substantial gainful activity, and prove the existence of jobs your neighbor is able to do on a sustained basis that exist in substantial numbers in the national economy.
She comes over regularly to chat with my wife. She was the one who told my wife and I about her job cleaning offices. I personally saw her using a shovel to lift concrete blocks out of the soil and then lift them into her van. She then drove her van back to her home and unloaded the blocks in her yard. These blocks were one foot square and 4 inches thick. One day she came over to ask me to help her move her mom's hospital bed into the shed. The bed was in the yard on it's side. She was able to lift her end of the bed and walk across the yard to put it in the shed.
Hmm. Cheated and lied to qualify for Section 8. does that include landlords who force their tenants to make illegal side payments? What about landlords who get checks for renting out substandard units?
Section 8 units have to go through an inspection by the local housing authority that manages Section 8. They are many times more stringent than the local jurisdiction as to livability.
Last edited by North Beach Person; 02-07-2010 at 11:58 AM..
I worked in goverment housing for a few years. Icould fill a book on cheats.
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I suspect that these types of women are in the minority of welfare recipients.
