On the recordFebruary 9, 1995
Mr. Speaker, every day there are dreadful examples of why it is so important to take cash out of our welfare system and replace it with a debit card. In Chicago, 20 people were living in a 2-bedroom apartment, 5 families used the address to qualify for welfare. Thus, $4,500 in welfare benefits were going to the adults in the apartment. All five adults were alleged drug abusers. The adults were using the children to feed their drug habits. Their children were being abused, and we, the taxpayers, were inadvertently assisting. Mr. Speaker, it is our welfare system that helps create this problem. A welfare debit card instead of cash payments will help prevent child abuse, help us with our war on drugs, and, finally, give the taxpayers an accounting of their hard-earned tax dollars. I encourage my colleagues to join the bipartisan supported welfare debit card bill.
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