Posted on 08/26/2009 7:34:24 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.
The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks.
Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren't incarcerated in any one of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.
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This is not a mistake, this is redistribution!
Millions, all under the legal guardianship of ACORN...
3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmates and how many hundreds of notices went out to veterans erroneously informing them they had ALS. Good Lord! I know! Let’s give them complete control over our health care! /sarc
I didn’t get no stinking check.
Then again i’m not in jail.
JEEEEEZ
Drug addicts are considered “disabled” - and receive social security checks...
2200 inmates received checks for $250. Sounds like thousands of prison bitches were turned out that week.
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