Welfare time limit bill to be heard in Senate THIS Monday, Feb 15!

[annm4peace]

Join WRC and others this Monday at the Capitol:

We are testifying on the welfare time limit!
Please come and join us!

Capitol address is 75 Rev. Martin Luther King Blvd.


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.

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.

www.mn-peoples-bailout.org

[wellstone dem]

1. Thanks for posting this

This is so important.