Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that Mayor Adams plans to give illegals $10k Debit Cards from taxpayers dollars.
Questions are being raised about a controversial program launched by the Adams administration to give migrant families pre-paid debit cards to buy food and other necessities.
Mayor Eric Adams says giving asylum seekers debit cards to buy their own food will save the city millions, but the head of the City Council’s oversight and investigations committee wants to know why the city issued a $53 million no-bid contract without seeing if it could get a better deal.
A Facebook post reads: “Want to bet that New York City’s illegal crisis is going to get worse? $53,000,000.00 in free credit cards ensure that it will. New York will fall very soon.”
But migrants will get prepaid debit cards as part of the New York pilot program — not credit cards — with which they will only be permitted to purchase food and baby supplies at certain types of retailers.
The cards are a possible replacement for non-perishable food boxes the city currently provides to migrants. They will be loaded with an average of $12.52 per person, per day for 28 days, according to Kayla Mamelak, a spokesperson for New York City Mayor Eric Adams. SNAP and WIC, federally funded health and nutrition programs, already use similar prepaid cards to dole out benefits.
The $53 million contract reviewed by CBS New York gives the firm, Mobility Capital Finance, lots of fees for services, including:
A $125,000 one-time set-up fee,
$250,000 in annual management fees,
And fees based on how much money is distributed to migrants — $1.5 million for the first $50 million handed out, and $2.5 million for the next $100 million.
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