Rise in public benefits to children of illegal immigrants in L.A. County has supervisor 'very concer

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Source: Los Angeles Times

Welfare payments to children of illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County increased in July to $52 million, prompting renewed calls from one county supervisor to rein in public benefits to such families.

The payments, made to illegal immigrants for their U.S. citizen children, included $30 million in food stamps and $22 million from the CalWORKS welfare program, according to Los Angeles County figures released Friday by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich.

The new figure represents an increase of $3.7 million from July 2009 and makes up 23% of all county welfare and food stamp assistance, according to county records.

Last year, welfare and food stamp issuances totaled nearly $570 million, an amount projected to exceed $600 million this year. In addition, county taxpayers spend $550 million in public safety -- mostly for jail costs -- and nearly $500 million for healthcare for illegal immigrants, Antonovich said.

Read more: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/rise-in-public-benefits-to-children-of-illegal-immigrants-in-los-angeles-county-concerns-supervisor-michael-antonovich.html

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Yes, the word that got cut off is "concerned".

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1. ..

:popcorn:

[SoapBox]

2. I do find some "help" frustrating...

...I've been taking care of my Mom (89!) 24/7/365 for over a year and a half.

She has limited income (SS and a VERY small "pension") and I've been living off savings.

This week, someone said I should look into getting some financial help, for being her
primary care giver. Heck...I didn't know you could do that and none of her many doctors
have ever mentioned it either.

So...I started some reading...made a couple of calls...I got no place. BUT what I did
notice (for City of Los Angeles and County of Los Angeles) was that if I was an IMMIGRANT
(the sites simply said that...nothing about legal or illegal) and needed help with...you
can fill in the blank with everything: food, housing, child care, medical care, transportation,
and on and on...but what I got was, nothing for me...and, Mom would need to be destitute to
get any financial consideration.

We try to not be a burden to any systems! But we could use some help...however it seems
that because we are NOT an IMMIGRANT then we can't get crap.

...that does tick me off.