Welfare Recipients Protest Inefficiencies
There’s nothing Danita Hobson would like more than to get off welfare. Just one problem: The county welfare department keeps losing her paperwork.
The time lost as a result has cost her a job, she said, and now is causing the single mother of two children to miss classes that would help her find work.
Hobson’s story is common among Los Angeles welfare recipients, according to the 100 or so people who staged a demonstration Wednesday in front of the Exposition Park district office of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services.
They hoped to call attention to the problem of lost paperwork, which can interrupt or end benefits.
The monthly eligibility report, a form that recipients must file each month, has been especially troublesome.
A survey last year of 350 South L.A. welfare recipients found nearly half complained most about the department losing the forms, protest organizers said.
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