NYC to end controversial program supplying migrants with prepaid debit cards
By: Allie Griffin Published (New York Post)
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
Mayor Eric Adams is ending his administration's controversial program supplying migrants in city shelters with prepaid debit cards to pay for groceries.
The pilot program distributed the preloaded Mastercards to asylum seekers at hotels-turned-shelters, with a family of four receiving about $350 a week to cover the cost of groceries and baby supplies.
The city hired New Jersey-based tech startup Mobility Capital Finance in a $53 million, one-year "emergency" contract that drew backlash when the city failed to conduct a typical bidding process before picking the company.
But with the one year up shortly, the Adams administration decided against renewing the contract, ABC7 reported.
"As we move towards more competitive contracting for asylum seeker programs, we have chosen not to renew the emergency contract for this pilot program once the one-year term concludes," Adams' office said in a statement to the station.
The city launched the program in late March after inking the contract two months earlier. Since then, the city has handed out $3.2 million in prepaid debit cards to some 2,600 migrant families for food, according to ABC7.
The program was meant to both trim costs and reduce food waste associated with the city's boxed-meal delivery service program. City officials said a lot of the food in the boxed meals was tossed out, and that allowing migrants to choose what they wanted to eat would cut back on waste.
The Adams administration said the no-bid emergency contract was awarded to avoid delays in rolling out the cost-saving program.
City Comptroller Brad Lander has since revoked the city's ability to award such deals for migrant services.
The Adams administration did not provide a reason on Thursday for cutting the program.
A spokesperson for the mayor did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Adams knows the cashflow for illegals is about to come to an end. Things could get VERY UGLY in the Big Apple when the illegals get evicted from their hotels.
I think that was a factor in the election as well. People tired of politicians taking their tax money and giving it away to others or spending it on political wish list programs they don't support.
The party is over.
Common sense being restored.
When there are millions of Americans struggling and in need of help multi million dollar handouts to illegals gives the impression that dems care more about illegals than they do about their fellow citizens. Another reason, imo, that harris lost big time to trump.
Need to stop giving away money you don't have to those who should not be here in the first place