Senate Hearing on Welfare Time Limit Moratorium
Come to this hearing on our bills to suspend the welfare time limit!
Committee on Health, Housing and Family Security
Monday, February 15, 2010 – 12:30 p.m. Room 15 Capitol
S.F. 2243 Berglin – Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) cash assistance time limit exemption.
S.F. 2244 Berglin – Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) temporary hardship extension and qualification conditions.
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SF 2243 and SF2244 both suspend the five-year lifetime limit on welfare. MFIP (Minnesota’s welfare program for families) is the final safety net for parents who don’t have enough work quarters to qualify for unemployment – it is poor parents’ “unemployment insurance.” Most parents have done whatever they could to get jobs and avoid using up their 60 months, but still, many still have only a few months left. MFIP parents are generally the “last hired” at a workplace, which means they are the “first fired.” This puts MFIP parents – who are often not qualified for UI – in a tough spot for getting new jobs, especially in this economy.
a tough spot for getting jobs!?!?! That is an understatement! Now more and more companies are running credit checks befor they hire you. What are they going to find from people laid off, unemployment running out, cannot get welfare cause they used it up to go to college….there going to find BAD CREDIT!! so you never stood a chance of getting that job from the moment you applied.
Someone please tell me how falling behind on a car paymnet cause ive been laid off has ANYTHING to do with if im a good employee?