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What's wrong with our state's assistance program?
I have come to realize that the State of Oregon's assistance programs are really screwed up.
How is it that an average family with two working parents who could use just a little bit of help, but are not asking for cash, housing or daycare assistance, can't get any help because they make $50 to much to qualify for anything?
But on the other hand, a father of two, neither of which live with him, can get housing assistance, food stamps and insurance through our wonderful state of Oregon. This man has a third child on the way from a third woman, has never once paid a dime of child support in eight years, and hasn't worked in five years. Why does he qualify for assistance?
And to top it off, the last time he got a tax return, the state took it and gave it to his second-born child without giving any to the first-born. It all seems so backwards. If a father who has thousands of dollars in back child support qualifies for any assistance, why isn't that assistance automatically forwarded to the mothers who are raising his children with no help from him or the state of Oregon?
Since when does it actually benefit to be a dead-beat dad? Why are we encouraging such behavior? When does accountability come in? Why is it OK to say that one sibling deserves the support more than another? We need some serious reform in our assistance programs. Just saying!
Kaylyn Willis
Winston
I have come to realize that the State of Oregon's assistance programs are really screwed up.
How is it that an average family with two working parents who could use just a little bit of help, but are not asking for cash, housing or daycare assistance, can't get any help because they make $50 to much to qualify for anything?
But on the other hand, a father of two, neither of which live with him, can get housing assistance, food stamps and insurance through our wonderful state of Oregon. This man has a third child on the way from a third woman, has never once paid a dime of child support in eight years, and hasn't worked in five years. Why does he qualify for assistance?
And to top it off, the last time he got a tax return, the state took it and gave it to his second-born child without giving any to the first-born. It all seems so backwards. If a father who has thousands of dollars in back child support qualifies for any assistance, why isn't that assistance automatically forwarded to the mothers who are raising his children with no help from him or the state of Oregon?
Since when does it actually benefit to be a dead-beat dad? Why are we encouraging such behavior? When does accountability come in? Why is it OK to say that one sibling deserves the support more than another? We need some serious reform in our assistance programs. Just saying!
Kaylyn Willis
Winston
