LePage to push new welfare fraud bills
Gov. Paul LePage said in a weekly address Tuesday that he plans to introduce bills during the next legislative session to tighten requirements for receiving state aid and to limit the items that can be purchased with electronic benefit transfer cards.
The governor said in his weekly radio address that he plans to introduce a bill to require “able-bodied applicants” to show that they have applied for three jobs before receiving state aid through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Two other bills would widen the range of TANF recipients required to participate in a state work-search program and ban EBT cards from being used to buy things like alcohol, lottery tickets and cigarettes.
The Portland Press Herald reported Democratic lawmakers have criticized the proposals, saying they will make life harder for people living in poverty.
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