State (MI) puts needy families on notice: Assistance may be running out

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit Free Press

State puts needy families on notice: Assistance may be running out
6:17 PM, Aug. 9, 2011
BY ROBIN ERB
DETROIT FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER


Federal assistance may be running out for nearly 14,000 of Michigan’s needy families – their five year’s having expired and the state no longer willing to continue extending the time beyond that through hardship exceptions.

It’s a change in state policy prompted by the tight budget.

At the same time, the state is also revamping how it hands out the assistance, and plans to limit the total time in most cases to four years, likely beginning Oct. 1, according Maura Corrigan, director of the Michigan Department of Human Services.

In the long-run, the move will help Michigan’s families, she said today.


Read more: http://www.freep.com/article/20110809/NEWS06/110809045/State-puts-needy-families-notice-Assistance-may-running-out?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

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Maura Corrigan is a former Michigan Supreme Court justice. Governor Rick Snyder appointed this Federalist Society member to head DHS.

[indurancevile]

1. michigan unemployment = highest in the country.

[Psephos]

3. Actually, Michigan has improved. It's now tied with S. Carolina for fifth worst.

California (11.8), Rhode Island (10.8), Nevada (12.4), and Florida (10.6) all currently have a higher rate than Michigan (10.5).

http://www.bls.gov/web/laus/lauhsthl.htm

[dorksied]

2. When the food riots start, change will happen.

[jtuck004]

7. Yep. They can transition from meals at home to meals in jail.

After being beaten down, of course.

[quakerboy]

8. New jobs for everybody

Private prisons. You get your choice... Inmate or Guard. Pay is sometimes better for the guards, but the healthcare plan on the inmate side is to die for.

[gordianot]

4. Michigan wonder if there ever was a history of civil unrest in that State?

Austerity measures do save money, just look at how well they work out in the UK.

[JDPriestly]

9. Michigan hopes to export its poverty.

If you can't export anything else, why not export poverty?

Lots of money in New York. Go there.

[sarcasmo]

20. 68 riots

[roxiejules]

5. Krugman said if you don't already have a job today

you won't be finding one anytime soon.

[knitter4democracy]

6. You mean like Snyder's "pro-jobs, pro-kids" budget that cost me my teaching job?

I've got a long-term sub job until Thanksgiving and am waiting to hear on another possible teaching job. It's amazingly bad up here and getting worse.

[roxiejules]

13. It is horrible what Snyder has done to Michigan

and especially to teachers and students.

[Auntie Bush]

16. I wish you all kinds of luck in finding that teaching job. nt

[knitter4democracy]

19. Thank you. nt

[blue_onyx]

18. Hopefully...

when school starts and parents see the effect of the budget cuts, more people sign the petition to recall Snyder.

[BeHereNow]

10. Translation: Sorry folks- Billions for private corps in War Games, but none for you at home.

NO ONE is talking about the billions for dollars being syphoned off,
in the FUBAR wars we are waging, to Halliburton, Blackwater or XE or what ever name
they are hiding under now- it is disgraceful- the inequities being endorsed by our Congress
and other public servants, in the favor of the war mongers.

What the HELL is going to become of the people impacted by this loss of assistance?!?!?!?

GOD DAMN the people responsible for this latest assault on the people.
I am hoping there is a hell with a special room reserved just for them.

BHN

[No Elephants]

11. Damn Corrigan! Oh, wait.

"Earlier in the day, DHS began sending out notices to Michiganders who had surpassed their five-year federal limit and had extended beyond that time through hardship extensions.


Under the Clinton administration and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, federal cash assistance was limited to 60 months in a lifetime, but states were given the option to shorten the limit.


The idea was to end reliance on government assistance and push people into finding jobs."

Okay, boys and girls, who can find the flaw in Clinton's plan?

[PhoenixAbove]

12. K&R

[tawadi]

14. Very sad

We'll be seeing more of these headlines, I'm afraid. :(

[oldbitty]

15. Here it comes

the great American die off.

[Auntie Bush]

17. I feel so sorry for all those people. What the hell are

People/families going to do without a job or benefits...starve!!?!?

This is America?