Michigan Senate passes 48-month limit on welfare, raises wage cap

[drpepper67]

http://www.detnews.com/article/20110713/POLITICS02/107130397/Michigan-Senate-passes-48-month-limit-on-welfare--raises-wage-cap

Lansing— Welfare benefits are limited to 48-months under a bill passed today in a special summer session of the state Senate.
Democrats voted as a bloc against the legislation, which passed 24-12.
The two-bill package would extend to all recipients a 48-month limit that now applies only to those eligible to participate in the state's Work First program and who live in an area where the Jobs, Education and Training (JET) program is available. The 48-month limit for those enrolled in JET is due to expire Sept. 30.
Eliminating that sunset will throw 12,600 families, with an average monthly benefit of $515, off the welfare rolls Oct. 1. Savings to the state would total $77.4 million, including $65 million in the general fund. The bill includes some exemptions to the cap, and the Department of Human Services would be allowed to exempt up to 6,100 cases during the 2012 fiscal year.

[Bandit]

1. Well I suspect the wealthy need that money for a new yacht or something

Take from the poor and give to the Rich..How Nobel those Republicans are..

[DBoon]

2. I suspect the wealthy need a new class of indentured servants

will to work for no pay

[FiveGoodMen]

3. EVERYTHING that's going on in the US (and much of the world) comes down to exactly that.

[LynneSin]

4. They'll need that 77.4 million to pay for homeless shelters and healthcare

for all the families they'll be tossing out on the streets.

[onethatcares]

5. have they passed a law creating jobs?

or requiring every company that does business with the state to use all Made in America products?

Probly not, they're more interested in getting "those people" off the welfare roles and with looking like they''

really care.