Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits

[FarCenter]

The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012, the Herald has learned.

“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee today.

The state has handed over more than 500 documents to the 11-member House Post Audit and Oversight Committee, which today met for the first time and plans to call in officials from the Department of Transitional Assistance to testify.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/04/tsarnaev_family_received_100g_in_benefits

[DonViejo]

1. Over the course of ten years the family of four received...

$10K per year or, $2,500 per family member per year. Yep, that's real high living in Boston.

[Capt. Obvious]

9. Stunning bonanza!

[HiPointDem]

14. get ready for the propaganda assault: "welfare fuels terrorism! benefits must be reduced!"

still won't stop terrorism, since the fbi is paying for the weapons in such a high percent of cases...

the terrorists can't afford them....

[FSogol]

2. Catapult the propaganda! Let's blame food stamps and programs that help the poor!

Pathetic.

[maxsolomon]

3. wow a "stunning" "bonanza" of ill-gotten gains

better stop all immigration, because somewhere, sometime, someone underserving might get a meal or shelter.

[Luminous Animal]

4. Unrec for right wing bullshit.

[DonViejo]

6. The Boston Herald specializes in publishing right wing bull shit. nt

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. 2.5k per person per year? N.T.

[DonViejo]

7. Yep. $2.5K per year, per person. Simply scandalous according to the Boston Herald. nt

[Turborama]

8. $6.85c a day!!1!!

Disturbing.

[HappyMe]

13. A fortune, I tell ya!!1

[thatgemguy]

11. How did this informaton get released?

and WHY???

[Matariki]

12. That would only be 'stunning' if it were for one person for one year

[SoCalDem]

17. and if there were gift certificates for pressure cookers

Boston Herald is like Washington Times.. A rag using "newspaper-y" mastheads, while proffering Drudge/Infowars tripe..

People given asylum ALWAYS receive aid of some sort...and often for long-ish time.

An American family with 4 kids (3 teens included), dropped in ANY country where they did not know the language, would need assistance for the day-to-day existence until they could somehow support their kids.

The nation/community giving asylum has NO way to ever know in advance which immigrant (or their kids) MIGHT grow up to do something awful,

[Matariki]

18. LOL!

exactly!

[treestar]

15. That has nothing to do with anything

If they were qualified, they were qualified. That it would add up that high is probably an exaggeration.

[Gravitycollapse]

19. Is this DU or FR?