The welfare benefits of at least 11,000 recipients are at stake in
the Michigan Supreme Court, which is weighing whether the state
overstepped its authority in enforcing a five-year lifetime limit on
receiving cash assistance.
After a new law took effect in October 2011, state Department of
Human Services Director Maura Corrigan changed policy to end welfare
benefits for people who were beyond 60 months of eligibility under
federal law. The state has a 48-month limit, but months that recipients
get a hardship exemption - working single parents, for instance, or
caregivers for disabled family members - do not count.
http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/11/5-year_limit_on_welfare_challe.html#incart_river_default
Sunday, November 18, 2012
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