A controversial plan to provide immigrant families living in the United States improperly with debit cards for meals and baby items is being pursued in New York City.
Under the new program, a family of four would receive up to$ 350 per week on a debit card. The six-week plan may be offered. As the plan plans to reach about 115 families over the next week, ten families received payment cards on Monday.  ,
Mayor Eric Adams held a press conference this quarter, praising” we need to dispel the myth that we gave everyone American Express accounts.” ” That is just not real”.
He has defended the system, arguing that it will lower costs for immigrants and return money to local organizations.  ,
The programme received condemnation for the possibility of misuse or fraud as well as questions about whether illegal refugees were receiving preferential treatment over another New Yorkers in need of support.  ,
” A lot of New Yorkers are going to get this as something that’s necessarily unfair”, Joseph Borelli, the City Council’s Democratic majority leader, said. There are many New York who are having trouble paying their bills.
Anne Williams- Isom, New York City’s deputy president for health and individual companies, said,” I do battle with why individuals are being so bad when providing anything so simple for families with children. ” It’s not putting groups against each other”.
American families who are staying in the state’s hotels as part of Adams ‘ 28-day stay card program will be given out at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan. Authorities claimed that the use of cards will be monitored before expanding the program.  ,
” We’ll be looking at where they’re truly being used, what the cards is being used for, and comments from workers themselves to see whether this is something that is worthwhile”, Williams- Isom said.
Additionally, the area has the power to disable a debit card or reduce money from them.
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But, there are questions about the state’s deal for the bank card system with Mobility Capital Finance, a company that provides services to lower- income families. The contract was made on an emergency basis, which means there were no competing offers from competing businesses.  ,
Adams ‘ administration has previously received criticism for entering a “no-bid” agreement with DocGo, a city-based medical services provider, to deal with the city’s illegal immigration crisis.  ,
