Octuplet mom: I’ll use student loans to

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Octuplet mom: I’ll use student loans to
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Tue, 02-10-2009 - 1:43pm
Octuplet mom: I’ll use student loans to raise my kids
Reports say she gets food stamps and payments for 3 kids with disabilities

The California woman who gave birth to octuplets has no income and intends to use student loans to care for them and her other six children at home, all under the age of 8.


“Do you have any income at all?” TODAY’s Ann Curry asked Nadya Suleman during her exclusive interview with the 33-year-old mother of 14 children.


“At the moment, no,” Suleman replied, adding that she intended to use student loans “temporarily” to pay for her family’s care.



“I’m responsible. I am not on welfare,” Suleman told Curry. “I don’t want to disparage or seem like I’m disparaging any individual who uses welfare as a form of a resource. It can be a valuable resource. I’ve chosen never to go on welfare. I feel that it is my responsibility to do what I can to provide for my children.”


But published reports say that Suleman is receiving at least two forms of public assistance.


All of Suleman’s children are under the age of 8, and she now has 10 children under the age of 2. According to The Los Angeles Times, three of her older children have disabilities and receive Supplemental Security Income. In addition, Suleman reportedly receives $490 a month in food stamps from the state of California.



...cost of delivering the octuplets and keeping them in neonatal intensive care until they are ready to leave the hospital will be $1.5 million to $3 million. The Los Angeles Times has reported that Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, where the babies will remain for several weeks, has asked California’s medical insurance program, Medi-Cal, to pay the tab.



“In Nadya's view, the money that she gets from the food stamp program ... and the resources disabilities payments she gets for her three children are not welfare,” he said. “They are part of programs designed to help people with need, and she does not see that as welfare.”


(me:  Honestly, I don't think that the taxpayers of CA are going to care how SHE sees it!)



remainder of this story at:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29117041/


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Wed, 02-11-2009 - 4:35pm

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Thu, 02-12-2009 - 1:19pm

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