Fifty-three percent of non-disabled working age Medicaid recipients worked an average of zero hours per month while receiving benefits, according to a Thursday report from the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
The subset of recipients with the largest percentage of non-workers was adults aged 50-64 without children, according to the report. The subset with the smallest percentage of non-workers was working age recipients with a youngest child aged 1 to 5, with 49 percent of recipients reporting an average of zero work hours per month.
Of individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance benefits, 54 percent of non-disabled working age adults reported an average of zero hours of work per month while receiving benefits, according to the report.
For non-disabled working age adults receiving housing assistance, 45 percent reported an average of zero work hours per month when receiving benefits.
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Way higher than that sorry to say!
ReplyDeleteHow do you get a welfare recipient back to work?
ReplyDeletePut his SNAP card under his work boots.
That's why I see people with 2 arms and legs walk in and out of 1 FISH 2 FISH With a HUGE SMILE on there face with a BOX of Steamed Crab.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the illegal immigrants with anchor babies.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget the white trash herion/pill heads. More white people on benefits than all the minorities added together.
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