Democrats ask Wolf to declare emergency response to cash assistance elimination
House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday asking him to make an emergency declaration to aid recipients of a cash assistance program eliminated this week.
In his own letter, Wolf assured the lawmakers a formal declaration “would not have an effect beyond the work we are already doing.”
The Democrats’ letter was sent on the same day that a Commonwealth Court judge denied a preliminary injunction to keep General Assistance going as a lawsuit over its demise is adjudicated.
“We have heard story after story about how the [General Assistance] program has lifted people out of poverty and turned their lives around. It has kept people in homes, provided life saving healthcare, or transportation to get people access to care,” the lawmakers’ letter reads. “We need to find a way to continue to help these people and an emergency declaration will help get the right people to the table for coordinating the response.”
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