Welfare Recipient Lives in $1.2 Million Home?

By: Lynette Holloway | Posted: December 6, 2011

Welfare Recipient Lives in $1.2 Million Home?

$1.2 million waterfront home in Seattle (King 5 Seattle)

King 5 Seattle is reporting that federal agents raided the home of a Seattle woman, who lives in a beautiful waterfront home and yet collects welfare assistance.

KING 5 News is not naming the woman or her husband because they have not been criminally charged.

Search warrant documents unsealed Friday in federal court reveal that she received more than $1,200 a month in public housing vouchers, plus monthly cash from the federal and state government for a disability, as well as food stamps.

Property records show the woman lives in a 2,500 square-foot home, with gardens and a boat dock, that is valued at $1.2 million.

Records show she has received welfare benefits while living in the plush home since 2003. Records also show she truthfully provided her address when she applied for benefits.

... Court records show the couple gave money to charities and traveled around the world to exotic places like Turkey, Tel Aviv and resort towns in Mexico.

If these allegations are true that a well-off woman gamed the system, members of the Republican Party will have to develop new ways to disparage the poor. Wasn't it GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich who basically said last week that poor children do not have role models with work ethics? Well, what do we have here? A conundrum?

Read more at King 5 Seattle.

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