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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWelfare 'Reform' Program Punishes Mom for Daughter's Brain Cancer
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/31407-welfare-reform-program-punishes-mom-for-daughters-brain-cancerTo say Lisa was sick doesnt really begin to describe her troubles. The 12-year-old was racked by seizures and disabled by strokes from the brain surgery she underwent to remove a tumor. After battling cancer throughout her life, Lisa required assistance in dressing, eating, and elimination of urine and feces, as a doctor noted.
She most certainly could not go to school, as the superintendent, principal, and head of special education in her school district were all aware.
For the past two and a half years of her life, she was in and out of the hospital, her mother, Martha, said. She went from being this chatterbox to not talking at all.
But someone else at the school nevertheless dropped Lisa from enrollment after seeing she had been absent since spring 2012, when she suffered a stroke. By October 2014, Martha was told by the state of Michigan that her application for welfare was deniedbecause her daughter wasnt going to school.
I checked my [benefits] card monthly to see how much I would have, and thought, Why is my amount less? Then I got a letter in the mail, Martha told The Daily Beast. (She asked that she and her daughter be allowed to use pseudonyms to protect their privacy.)
Michigan kicked Martha, Lisa, and her two siblings off welfare. Thanks to a policy created by the departments Republican-appointed director, the state can cut off households if their children are truant. The state Department of Health Services said 350 households have had assistance eliminated or reduced since 2012 as part of Michigans attempt to force welfare recipients to send their kids to class.
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Welfare 'Reform' Program Punishes Mom for Daughter's Brain Cancer (Original Post)
eridani
Jul 2015
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pnwmom
(109,021 posts)1. This is evil, plain and simple. n/t
chillfactor
(7,587 posts)2. sometimes all I can do is shake my head....
at the evil of recon asshat politicians
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)3. K&R nt