How exactly does one get $40000 a year from welfare?

I looked it up. A woman with 3 or more children will get 18,000 a year including everything. That is too much because they can only get 12,100 per year to work a minimum wage job. Who is going to take a pay cut so that they can work and get experience when they can stay home with their kids? 40K is a myth. It is not their fault. I saw one site that said there are 114 million households on welfare. While the census department says there are only 23 million households in the whole country on welfare or not.

People if there is a web site reporting on welfare and the URL does not end in gov it is either a Liberal or Conservative lie site. OK?

in short -- that's exactly how it happens. food stamps, housing assistance, Medicaid for the kids, and a variety of other programs [I recall a source last year which listed some 58 different welfare programs sponsored by either the Federal or state government -- I think this was in California.]

i also recall a study by one of the various think tanks which compared the total available assistance for a mother of three to wages in each of the 51 states [and DC]. The study concluded that, in the most generous state, a full time wage of $19 an hour would be required to provide the same gross income as welfare. And, the $19 an hour would be taxable income subject to both 7.65 percent FICA taxes and income taxes.

In the UK, one single parent with 8 children was recently featured as a "welfare queen" in the UK conservative media because she was given about 580 British pounds per week based on her living situation. That works out to be just this side of $40,000 per year. She was a housewife whose working husband divorced her due to "stress". I don't know how welfare works in the UK, but $40,000 per year is not enough to raise 8 young children on your own.

"This week, the Cato Institute released a new study calculating the state-by-state value of this typical welfare package for a mother with two children participating in seven common welfare programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), food stamps (SNAP), Medicaid, housing assistance, WIC, energy assistance (LIHEAP), and free commodities. We found that, in 2013, the value of those benefits varied widely across states, from a low of $16,984 in Mississippi to an astonishing high of ***$49,175*** in Hawaii."

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/welfar...

You just sign up for everything you can get. In many states, it's more than $40k. We need to make being a leech less lucrative than actually working for a living.

We should also add in the $12k plus a year it supposedly takes to send each of those children to school. On top of that, we are also now feeding them breakfast and sending them home with dinners and food for the weekends. I guess mommy spends the food stamp money on crack or something.

It costs us a fortune to support these leeches.

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See the link.

But yes, there are direct cash payments, food stamps, subsidized housing. That can quickly add up in one of the more expensive states to live in.

in 1992, in Ma, one that received full benefits, from housing to medical, was receiving the equivalent or 34 thou a year. That was more then twenty years ago and benefits have been expanded and increased.

They're lucky to get $12,000 a year.

Yes, it adds up the value of all of those things. The democrats are already doing what you suggest.

They pull numbers out their butt, not basis in fact.