Public Interest
Feb. 6, 2016
Settlement will assist Kern County homeless
The Western Center on Law and Poverty successfully raised general assistance benefits provided to Kern County residents, and has its sights set on other counties whose procedures may be noncompliant.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Homeless and disabled residents of Kern County will now receive more money per month from the statutorily-mandated General Assistance Program, and will no longer be forced to jump through allegedly illegal hurdles before qualifying for aid, according to a settlement the county entered into with the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
A similar suit has already been fi...
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