Whitey Ford
02-23-2024, 02:11 PM
Mom given $10,800 in taxpayer-funded program for poor families spent most of it on luxury Miami trip: ‘I wanted to blow it’
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A sow breeder of three given nearly $11,000 in a taxpayer-funded program for impoverished families has admitted blowing most of it on a luxurious five-day trip to Miami — even getting a $180 makeover to not look like a “non-working” breeder sow while there.
Canethia Miller, 27, was one of 132 welfare boons in Washington, DC accepted last year into the “Strong Families, Stronger Futures” pilot program designed to help those living around the poverty line, according to the Washington Post.
She chose to take a no-strings-attached $10,800 lump sum, rather than $900 monthly payments — and immediately spent more than $6,000 on the trip for her, her three sons and their father.
“I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have fun,” she told the DC paper.
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For the trips, Miller bought 15 new outfits for her children — one for each child for each day of the vacation — and a $180 makeover so that she would no longer “look like a working, stressed mom.”
Then in Miami, Miller spent much of her new cash on steak dinners, new gadgets and toys for the children and a boat tour past some of the city’s most expensive mansions.
Obviously, she's being very responsible with this taxpayer funded infusion of cash. How bad is her situation?
She had claimed that she needed the money because her financial situation worsened after she had her third son in the summer of 2022.
Miller paused her education to receive a degree in social work to focus on the growing family and was living in a subsidized two-bedroom apartment at the time.
She was also receiving funds from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families fund, which helped her cover her $120-a-month rent.
But still, Miller said she was struggling to make her food stamps last.
“Groceries last us the first three weeks of the month, then it’s trying to figure out the last week of my benefits,” she explained.
“It lasts, but it cuts close.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/mom-given-10800-in-taxpayer-funded-program-for-poor-families-spent-most-of-it-on-luxury-miami-trip-i-wanted-to-blow-it/ar-BB1iLGPN
https://i.ibb.co/t3X3zwY/Breeder-Sow-Canethia.jpg
A sow breeder of three given nearly $11,000 in a taxpayer-funded program for impoverished families has admitted blowing most of it on a luxurious five-day trip to Miami — even getting a $180 makeover to not look like a “non-working” breeder sow while there.
Canethia Miller, 27, was one of 132 welfare boons in Washington, DC accepted last year into the “Strong Families, Stronger Futures” pilot program designed to help those living around the poverty line, according to the Washington Post.
She chose to take a no-strings-attached $10,800 lump sum, rather than $900 monthly payments — and immediately spent more than $6,000 on the trip for her, her three sons and their father.
“I wanted to blow it. I wanted to have fun,” she told the DC paper.
https://i.imgur.com/ywVwgIA.jpg
For the trips, Miller bought 15 new outfits for her children — one for each child for each day of the vacation — and a $180 makeover so that she would no longer “look like a working, stressed mom.”
Then in Miami, Miller spent much of her new cash on steak dinners, new gadgets and toys for the children and a boat tour past some of the city’s most expensive mansions.
Obviously, she's being very responsible with this taxpayer funded infusion of cash. How bad is her situation?
She had claimed that she needed the money because her financial situation worsened after she had her third son in the summer of 2022.
Miller paused her education to receive a degree in social work to focus on the growing family and was living in a subsidized two-bedroom apartment at the time.
She was also receiving funds from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families fund, which helped her cover her $120-a-month rent.
But still, Miller said she was struggling to make her food stamps last.
“Groceries last us the first three weeks of the month, then it’s trying to figure out the last week of my benefits,” she explained.
“It lasts, but it cuts close.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/family/mom-given-10800-in-taxpayer-funded-program-for-poor-families-spent-most-of-it-on-luxury-miami-trip-i-wanted-to-blow-it/ar-BB1iLGPN