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Residents Get Chance At Stimulus Money
Stimulus Money Available For Low-Income, Homeless Detroit Residents

POSTED: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
UPDATED: 1:41 pm EDT October 8, 2009

DETROIT -- Detroit's homeless and low-income residents have another opportunity for a chance at millions of stimulus dollars.

The money is available to help low-income residents from becoming homeless and homeless residents to find housing.

Thousands of people lined up Tuesday.

October 8, 2009: Scammers Target Homeless Seeking Help

Some people in line falsely believed they were registering for $3,000 stimulus checks from the Obama Administration.

City officials told Local 4 that Detroit was granted $15 million to help residents pay bills and their rent or find temporary housing for the homeless.

Watch: Thousands Line Up For Stimulus Check Applications

The Detroit Planning and Development Department (PDD) is taking applications Tuesday and Wednesday for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program.

The applications deadline is Oct. 7.

The remaining 5,000 applications can be picked up Wednesday at the Cobo Hall in the Riverview Ballroom from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Already filled out applications can be submitted at the Cobo Hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or sent in the mail to the Detroit Planning and Development Department at 65 Cadillac Square, Suite 1400, Detroit, MI., 48226.

Applications must be postmarked by Oct. 7.

Application Guidelines

To qualify, a person must have been a resident of Detroit for more than six months, must be homeless or facing eviction and must be able to maintain housing after receiving assistance.

Also, a resident must make 50 percent less than the median area income, which would be less than $24,850 for single Detroit residents and less than $35,500 for a family of four.

No mortgage assistance will be available through this program.

Once applications are reviewed, only applicants eligible for funding assistance will receive notification from a service provider.

For more information, visit www.Detroitmi.gov.

October 8, 2009: Scammers Target Homeless Seeking Help


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Stimulus Money Available For Low-Income, Homeless Detroit Residents
POSTED: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
UPDATED: 1:41 pm EDT October 8, 2009

<font size="4">Maybe someone can explain to me how this fits under a stimulus plan?  Seems to me we should be outraged over this use of our tax money shelled out as welfare from money that was voted on to be used to create jobs!  I guess Congress just passed a $700 billion slush fund to pay off whoever they chose to pay off.  Makes me sick!!emoBang emoBang emoBang </font>

 

[Sniperchoke]

Yeah and guess who those people will vote for next go around. I thought it was illegal to pay someone off for a vote. Guess not.

 

[Guest]

I'll bet everyone in Detroit is a democrat also, no republicans what so ever. I wonder if you lived up there and was losing everything you had if you would have gotten in line? Don't ever just think about yourself. If you are dead set against the USA for doing this be sure and send your stimulas check that everyone around received, back to the government so that someone who could really use it, got it.

 

[Fishin' Junkie]

Stimulus Check??? I think I get like $8 extra on my paycheck... I think only old people were the ones who got an actual check this time around.

 

[Guest]

Fishin' Junkie - 10/9/2009 2:03 PM Stimulus Check??? I think I get like $8 extra on my paycheck... I think only old people were the ones who got an actual check this time around.

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You can call your bank and see when it was deposited, everyone who pays taxes got one unless you owed them money.</p>

 

[Fishin' Junkie]

Sorry, but you're wrong. I work at my bank. You may be thinking of last years stimulus act when Bush was in office and every tax payer got back a stimulus check. I did get one then and it was $600. This year they cut back federal taxes for us working folks so we get back an extra $8-12 per paycheck. This year, the people who got back an acutal check are people on social security and I believe it was around $250.

 

[Fishin' Junkie]

You can read all about it here...

http://2009stimuluscheck.net/

 

[Guest]

Fishin' Junkie - 10/9/2009 2:25 PM Sorry, but you're wrong. I work at my bank. You may be thinking of last years stimulus act when Bush was in office and every tax payer got back a stimulus check. I did get one then and it was $600. This year they cut back federal taxes for us working folks so we get back an extra $8-12 per paycheck. This year, the people who got back an acutal check are people on social security and I believe it was around $250.

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My wife and I got one but I haven't asked around to see if anyone else got one or not, check into it and see where yours went.</p>

 

[Sniperchoke]

One of the reasons those people are having to stand in line is because the gov't and the unions screwed them over in the 1st place. If we didn't have to pay so much in taxes people could stand to get through the hard times. I will never compromise my belief in a self sufficient society in order to beg for the scraps and crumbs thrown to me by crooked socialist politicians.

 

[Fishin' Junkie]

Directly from the link I posted...

"The first is a 2009 stimulus check for those on social security incomes, military pensions and railroad pensions. This is a $250 2009 stimulus check that is a one time payment similar to the 2008 stimulus check that President Bush issued last year. To qualify for the 2009 stimulus check you had to have already been on social security by the end of 2008 to receive your 2009 stimulus check in May 2009.

Starting in April 2009 the government is lowering the taxes withheld from your paychecks to the amount of about about $20/week so that over the course of the year it would amount to $400 (or $800 for couples). THIS IS THE ONLY 2009 STIMULUS CHECK THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THOSE THAT ARE WORKING. The 2009 stimulus check is essentially a $400 check paid over the course of the year."

 

[cast4bass]

Doc
The point here is that the stimulus bill was not for welfare. It was for shovel ready jobs and not hand outs. Also, there are a lot of people in Chattanooga suffering so why didn't Chattanooga get a hand out - why Detroit? Hmmm?? I think all us can feel for the unemployed and hopefully help out our fellow man but that's not the point. The point is that this massive spending was sold to us as creating jobs not for handouts.

 

[Guest]

If I remember correctly all states and all cities in each state got stimulas money to spend where they saw the worst need for it. If this is true maybe Detroit decided to help the masses who needed it. There are a lot of states who have used the stimulas money to extend unemployment payments to unemployed people while they are trying or waiting on a job. I have no idea what our cities here in Tn. are doing with their share of the stimulas money. I see road and bridge work being done close to where I live, maybe this is some of the stimulas money being used to improve roads. If you received 5 to 10 dollars extra on your check, this is your part of a tax cut acording to your income and family size. Your not getting rich off it but it is more than you had last year.

 

[beetlespin]

I'm sure that extra $8/week will go back to them on my tax return. Govt involvment needs to go down, not up.

 

[Sniperchoke]

Local gov't should take care of the roads instead of the Feds.