Word for Word: An Action to Save GA and MFIP
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News Advisory
Word for Word: An Action to Save GA and MFIP
4 p.m. Sunday at the State Capitol
May 20, 2011
Event: Word for Word: An Action to Save GA and MFIP
Participants will call for continued budget negotiations to include preserving General Assistance (GA) and the Minnesota Family and Investment Program (MFIP). After reading quotes from legislative leaders, program recipients, religious texts, and excerpts from the passed legislation, those gathered will deliver letters written by GA and MFIP recipients to the Governor, Speaker Zellers, and Leader Koch.
When: 4 p.m. Sunday, May 22
Where: East Wing, first floor, State Capitol
Organized by: A coalition of organizations working to end homelessness and poverty in Minnesota. Sponsored by the Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, Catholic Charities Office for Social Justice, and St. Stephen’s Human Services.
BACKGROUND
General Assistance provides $203 a month as the sole income to very poor disabled and ill adults. The Minnesota Family Investment Program provides income assistance to very poor children and their families and is the state’s welfare to work program. Assistance levels in both programs have not been increased since 1986. Both programs have been targeted for cuts in the Health and Human Services omnibus budget passed early Thursday morning by the state legislature. The proposed cuts include:
- The elimination of General Assistance which provides $203 a month to very poor disabled adults who cannot work;
- Cuts in MFIP income assistance to families with disabled parents;
- Restrictions on work-related education and training for parents on the welfare-to-work program;
Anticipating a veto from the Governor, concerned citizens, assistance recipients, and advocates for Minnesotans living in poverty will gather to ask that further budget negotiations maintain funding levels for General Assistance and the Minnesota Family Investment Program.
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Comments
Compassion is demanded of all people in the face of the needs of the vulnerable people among us, poor, disabled and ill adults and families.
Governor Dayton has been clear on the need for cuts and need to raise taxes ...
this should not be done on the backs of the most vulnerable among us.
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