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Welfare recipients are being refused aid for food and rent on the grounds that they’re too poor. An SF alderman calls it »moral bankruptcy« and fears more homelessness.

They’re so poor they don’t even qualify for assistance with food and utilities

Kollage: Connor Selkirk Neillands. Orginalfoto: Søren Østerlund, Jens Dresling, Jesper Voldgaard, Thomas Borberg, Martin Bubandt, Martin Lehmann.
Kollage: Connor Selkirk Neillands. Orginalfoto: Søren Østerlund, Jens Dresling, Jesper Voldgaard, Thomas Borberg, Martin Bubandt, Martin Lehmann.
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One needed help to afford food. Another couldn’t pay rent. A third had become too poor to pay their heating bill.

These three are examples of welfare recipients who, after the new welfare reform took effect on July 1st, have become too poor to receive financial assistance for basic expenses.

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