If you are homeless and in need of shelter, how do you prove residency? If receiving aid a way to prove residency but residency is a requirement to receive aid, how is a homeless person supposed to work that out?
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I think thats the point. If you move there homeless you will get the benefit but if you moved there for a job and got an apartment or what not but then hit on hard times you can get benefits.
Even when you vote Democrat, you get what Republicans want anyway. Resist libs can't even bother to resist anymore.
republicans don't want the law at all. These type of thing is such a false equivalency. Residency requirments for state public benefits is a fairly common thing. It keeps states that encourage things like homelessness and don't have very good safety nets from exporting it all to more well run states that do.
It's because Healey is a conservative. Massachusetts is solid blue, so unless you're a MAGA fascist, you're a Democrat. Kind of like the rest of the country at this point, really.