Author Archives: yuliyaf

Me and my prednant friend went to sign her up for foodstamps and WIC and all that stuff on friday.  She is a single mother and the father of the baby wants nothing to do with her or the child meaning that she has to do everything on her own.  What I found interesting in all those offices is that when they asked her about the father and she told them that he will not help and when they added him to all the papers she was supposed to get like $250 worth of foodstamps and I’m not sure about WIC even though the father will not help or pay child support.  But when she changed it to “father unknown” then her aid almost doubled.  This surprized me becasue I thought that having a father who will not help at all or no father should be almost the same and she should get almost the same aid but it turns out that if the mother will put down the name of the father then she will get a lot less aid whether or not the father will help at all.  So this means that it is better for her not to mention him at all because she will be better off like that.