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Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves leaves the Capital Club at Capital Towers in Jackson after the Stennis Capitol Press Forum Jackson Monday, January 14, 2019. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America
Who’s getting rich off child support?
(Hint: It’s not the moms)
Editor’s note: This story is part two in a series examining Mississippi’s child support enforcement program. Read the other stories here.
In 2019, kids in Mississippi’s child support program got an average of about $900.
The same year, Gov. Tate Reeves’ campaign received $25,000 from the wealthy private government contractor who runs the public service.
MDHS: Households receiving SNAP benefits are eligible for supplemental benefit for January MDHS: Households receiving SNAP benefits are eligible for supplemental benefit for January (Source: MDHS) By Josh Carter | December 29, 2020 at 3:28 PM CST - Updated December 29 at 4:54 PM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Due to the pandemic, the Mississippi Department of Human Services has announced that households receiving SNAP benefits will be eligible for a supplemental benefit for January 2021.
According to MDHS, similar benefits were also provided for certified SNAP households for the previous months.
“SNAP households that have been certified based on meeting income and resource requirements are eligible to receive the supplement benefits,” a statement by MDHS reads. “These households will receive benefit supplements up to the maximum benefit amount, based on household size.”
Mississippi 2020 top stories: Virus, flag, prisons, storms
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUSDecember 28, 2020 GMT
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) More than one in every 1,000 Mississippi residents died of COVID-19 during 2020. And as the U.S. faced widespread protests over racial injustice, Mississippi legislators voted under pressure to retire a Confederate-themed state flag that had been used for 116 years.
COVID-19
Mississippi detected its first coronavirus cases in March, and the pandemic shook the economy, disrupted schools and scrambled people’s routines. Unemployment claims rose sharply as people lost jobs. Some could work from home, but many still had to report to factories or other places requiring in-person labor. Republican Gov. Tate Reeves set a statewide mask mandate for several weeks during the summer, but at other times set county-by-county mask mandates in places with the fastest spread of the virus. The state health officer, Dr. Thomas Dobbs, repeatedly implored people to wear mas
‘unf-ck’ its child support program
A stack of cash money that noncustodial parents paid to help care for their kids sat unsupervised on a table in the middle of a room at Mississippi’s child support disbursement unit.
Local government contractor Rob Wells encountered the scene in 2010 when he visited the office to look for ways to improve a deeply flawed and antiquated system overseen by the Mississippi Department of Human Services.
The unit was responsible for intaking child support money, a debt the state imposes mostly on separated fathers, and issuing it to the correct family.
Many mothers had complained of long delays in receiving the funds. Wells knew about this because his company ran the call center where parents could call for help on their cases.
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