New York City’s seniors are already underutilizing public benefits available to them. But for non-citizen seniors, that reluctance has grown in the past year, a result of alarm from the…
‘If these higher benefits were eaten up immediately, it’s not like low-income people are spending it on caviar or something. They are struggling just to survive.’
But the number of SNAP participants in the city keeps falling. That could reflect good news about the economy, the impact of federal benefit cuts or the persistence at the…
‘Narratives about those receiving public benefits depict them as scammers living large off the hard work of tax-paying Americans. This is far from the truth.’ Watch a video op-ed.
