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Selective Assistance? Is this wrong?

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Posted 12/28/2012

There was an agency near me that received a grant.  As long as you went to some money management classes, they would match you $2.00 for every $1.00 you put in an account up to $1000.00.  So, you put in $1000.00 and received a check for $3000.  It could only be used to buy a car and the purchase had to be approved (so you couldn't buy your neighbor's old 88 escort for $3000 and split the difference). 

I work in public housing.  You'd think they'd do some outreach so I could let my clients know about the program. Nope.  I found out about it from a friend who used it.  My friend makes about $18 an hour and has one kid. I'm sure someone who lives in the projects could have used it more than said friend.

By the time I found out about it, they had used all of the grant.  They didn't even advertise it on their website.  Straight Face

Posted 12/28/2012
Sadly a lot of government grants work like this. They allocate a certain amount, but if you don't use it all, instead of it getting rolled over they just give you less next time, assuming you don't need it. Basically encouraging agencies to waste money on things they don't need so they don't get penalized in the future. Seriously backwards IMO. I used to work for a government contractor and we dealt with this constantly.

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