A federal lawsuit filed against the Kansas City Kansas Housing Authority alleges that a mother was forced to hand over her food benefits so she could get public housing.
Andrea Randle, a Kansas City, Kansas, resident and mother to three boys, filed the civil lawsuit late last year, saying housing authority employees illegally used the federal benefits for themselves. The suit says the authority’s director, Andrea Tapia, knew about the scheme and did nothing to stop it.
While she and her sons went hungry, Randle says she watched online while her Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program card was used all over town to get thousands of dollars worth of groceries. She believes federal housing funds were often used to cover some of her expenses in exchange for her SNAP benefits…