Reporting from Sacramento -- The state will suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants and other payments owed to Californians starting Feb. 1, Controller John Chiang announced Friday.
Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state's nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds.
The payments to be frozen include nearly $2 billion in tax refunds; $300 million in cash grants for needy families and the elderly, blind and disabled; and $13 million in grants for college students.
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California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants
Chiang said he had no choice but to stop making some $3.7 billion in payments in the absence of action by the governor and lawmakers to close the state's nearly $42-billion budget deficit. More than half of those payments are tax refunds.
The payments to be frozen include nearly $2 billion in tax refunds; $300 million in cash grants for needy families and the elderly, blind and disabled; and $13 million in grants for college students.
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California controller to suspend tax refunds, welfare checks, student grants
3 comments:
They should suspend all payment to the legislooters, too!
Its always those whom cannot defend in this corporate society that get the hit. Legislooters, lawyers & other "fiduciaries" still sip lattes & pluck the golden goose.
Tax refunds can wait. The rest can't.
Yes, the vulnerable get the hit. And those in power see that they do.
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