A Wonder Lake letter to the editor: Change the law. Eliminate townships' General Assistance, an 1850s taxpayer funded scam.
Change the law. Eliminate townships' General Assistance, an 1850s taxpayer funded scam. Put taxpayers first, not township supervisors. By law, Illinois township government supervisors are charged with just one function, General Assistance, aid for the indigent. G.A. is a program that was established in 1850, the birth of township government when most townships had fewer than 50 residents.
General Assistance is a public aid program by state law for qualified individuals if they meet eligibility requirements of very low income or no income and can't receive any form of public benefits. A snap-shot-view from Freedom of Information findings on McHenry County's seventeen townships, Fiscal Year 2020-2021. For the Fiscal Year, only 164 clients in 17 townships qualified for aid. Eight townships had zero clients, but the supervisors made off with $192,920. Two townships had two who qualified, one had three and another had five.
The amount of aid delivered was just $4,704. However, the supervisors pocketed $113,402. In 17 townships taxpayers have $1,361,301 of their hard earned tax dollars sitting fund balances. They will also be on the hook for another $382,326 of new levied money.The functions and duties of Townships" General Assistance have been replaced by many other forms of public aid.
A call to action: Contact your state Springfield lawmakers and tell them to support the elimination of townships' General Assistance.
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