Calif. SSI payouts insufficient, lacking in oversight
Capital Public Radio’s Kelley Weiss explored how cuts to California’s Supplemental Security Income were impacting older disabled Californians and, in a second story, the lack of oversight in the massive state program. According to Weiss, the state doesn’t track how the money is spent by recipients or whether the $845 a month is enough to live on. Weiss even found recipients who admitted using the money to buy everything from beer to crack cocaine.
“I don’t have any, I don’t have any background on this…yeah, we’ll have to set up a different time for that.”
Learn more about the national system here.
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