Published April 30, 2008, 12:00 AM
Representatives decided Minnesota welfare recipients should be prohibited from using state-funded cash assistance to buy alcohol, tobacco or lottery tickets.
Reps say no smokes, lottery tickets with welfare cash
Minnesota NewsRepresentatives decided Minnesota welfare recipients should be prohibited from using state-funded cash assistance to buy alcohol, tobacco or lottery tickets.
Representatives decided Minnesota welfare recipients should be prohibited from using state-funded cash assistance to buy alcohol, tobacco or lottery tickets.
House Minority Leader Marty Seifert, R-Marshall, and others said on Monday that taxpayer dollars that go toward welfare should not be spent on those products.
Seifert’s amendment to a welfare and child assistance bill passed 101-28. The full bill then was passed by the House.
Democrats who opposed the amendment said it was a partisan “gotcha” vote and that more should be done to help Minnesotans avoid needing welfare.
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