Source: By ROBERT T. GARRETT, The Dallas Morning News
(TX), Monday, August 3,
2009
Legal services lawyers for the poor
have filed a class-action lawsuit demanding immediate repair of Texas' much-criticized
eligibility screening system for health and welfare programs. The suit was
filed in U.S. District Court in Austin late
Friday by two impoverished Irving women who applied for food stamps more
than two months ago but still haven't been interviewed by the state Health and
Human Services Commission.
..... Although a privatization experiment launched four
years ago drove hundreds of experienced state workers to seek other jobs, the
commission has gradually added more staff - some 700 in the past year, Goodman
said.
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