New Mexico Human Services denied food assistance to hungry families to meet deadlines
Source: Raw Story
New Mexico Human Services denied food assistance to hungry families to meet deadlines
David Edwards
01 May 2016 at 16:26 ET
Five New Mexico state workers admitted last week that they denied food assistance to needy families after being pressured by superiors.
According to KTRK, five workers at the states Human Services department told a federal court that they falsified records to claim that families applying for food assistance had more than $100 in assets
When the workers could not meet the seven-day deadline for processing emergency applications, they said that records were falsified to reject the requests.
It makes the states numbers appear artificially high, as if they were processing things according to law, New Mexico Center on Law and Povertys Sovereign Hager told KTRK. When in fact, they arent.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/new-mexico-human-services-denied-food-assistance-to-hungry-families-to-meet-deadlines/
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)Then to be lied to by the very people that are supposed to be helping you? Disturbing and disgusting! Hope the supervisors are held accountable for their actions.
How many people went hungry or had other problems develop because of these people!
gladium et scutum
(809 posts)cstanleytech
(26,351 posts)retirement ones that they might have had but they wont be.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)I bet the Veteran Administration recruiters must be swarming New Mexico trying to hire these state workers.
sarisataka
(18,895 posts)And their supervisors facing fraud charges as would a family who lied about their assets?
procon
(15,805 posts)What kind of psychopaths deny food to hungry people just to plump up their stats?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)last couple weeks ago we read of Welfare workers who falsified child abuse records, which led to the death of a child.
Human Service agencies live and breathe by stats. They need numbers to increase or remain even to justify their annual budget.
Under that system, it becomes tempting to fudge numbers.
Appropriate oversight should have caught this "long time" problem.
sadly, said oversight is not common, in my experience.
disgusting
trc
(823 posts)why these five workers could not meet their deadline? New Mexico is getting hammered by the drop in oil prices and the revenue loss that drop represents. There has probably been a drastic increase in the number of folks needing help and probably a budget cut in the department that oversees that need, I don't know, but maybe someone else out there does? And maybe how high up this directive originated.