{"id":186551,"date":"2023-09-29T18:46:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=186551"},"modified":"2023-09-29T18:47:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T22:47:54","slug":"govt-said-to-owe-foster-parents-17-months-stipend-while-senior-citizen-is-forced-to-trade-food-voucher-for-cooking-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/govt-said-to-owe-foster-parents-17-months-stipend-while-senior-citizen-is-forced-to-trade-food-voucher-for-cooking-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t said to owe foster parents 17 months\u2019 stipend, while senior citizen is forced to trade food voucher for cooking gas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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REAL NEWS – As evidence of how cash-strapped the Browne Administration is, foster parents are reporting that they are owed for 17 months now.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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One couple tells REAL News that their family received their monthly stipend for four months in 2022, but has gotten nothing since \u2013 not even an explanation nor an apology \u2013 for all of 2023.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a foster parent, the family has been meeting all the needs of the child in their care \u2013 without the Government\u2019s contribution.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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However, she says, at her daughter\u2019s age \u2013 the child is now a teenager \u2013 there are things she would like to have, \u201cjust like everybody else.\u201dThis complaint comes alongside laments from persons who are owed by the Social Protection Board.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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A senior citizen tells REAL News that he last received a cheque in May 2023; however, he explains, that payment was for the month of January.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Accordingly, cheques for these last nine months are outstanding.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Since then, and periodically, the Board has distributed supermarket vouchers to its dependents. However, as the elderly man points out, \u201cfood vouchers can\u2019t pay bills.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, he says, he had to trade a $50 supermarket voucher with a neighbour for a small cylinder of cooking gas, which allows him to prepare hot meals for himself.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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Given the situation that he and other dependents have been facing this year, he is asking of the Browne Administration, \u201cWhah dem do wid all the money?\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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In the meantime, however, other residents are alleging that the food vouchers are being used for political patronage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They claim they have witnessed young and able-bodied supporters of the Antigua Labour Party using them \u201cto pay for full baskets of goods\u201d at the supermarket.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, one resident says, \u201chonest working people can\u2019t manage.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We pick up things and have to put them back on the shelf, because everything is so dear and our pay is the same.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Given their suffering and sacrifice, they all say they are deeply resentful \u2013 or \u201ctiff tone bex,\u201d as one woman puts it \u2013 that the Browne Administration can find the money to maintain the air-conditioning system on the Alfa Nero luxury yacht.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

International media have reported that the Administration spends US$2,000 every month for generator fuel alone \u2013 in order to protect the yacht\u2019s furnishings and floors from mold.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, locally, poor families say they are unable to run their cooling fans for too long in the current heat, because of high electricity bills.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a forgotten people!\u201d the Rural East resident concludes sadly.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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REAL NEWS – As evidence of how cash-strapped the Browne Administration is, foster parents are reporting that they are owed for 17 months now.\u00a0 One couple tells REAL News that their family received their monthly stipend for four months in 2022, but has gotten nothing since \u2013 not even an explanation nor an apology \u2013 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":186542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\nGov\u2019t said to owe foster parents 17 months\u2019 stipend, while senior citizen is forced to trade food voucher for cooking gas - Antigua News Room<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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