Another week, another migrant-mismanagement bombshell: Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams have been quietly handing out cash to thousands of migrants for nine months.
The governor and mayor have learned nothing from the mess they’ve made.
The federal government, which funds most cash-welfare benefits, prohibits “asylum seekers” from collecting such benefits, which pay $336 for a mother with two children and $252 for two adults (along with even more in shelter and energy subsidies).
But New York has its own state- and local-funded parallel “safety net assistance” program for those not eligible for federal welfare: people who have exceeded the federal five-year welfare time limit and singles without children.
Hochul stealthily expanded this program to include “applicants for asylum” and “applicants for temporary protected status.”
The governor did this, a social-services spokesman told The Post’s Rich Calder, “at the request of New York City.”
How many migrants are receiving these benefits?