ACTION ALERT: SRS Proration Hearing TODAY! Make Your Voice Heard! (LINK TO APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE MEMBERS) Posted by scshute — January 30, 2012 @ 10:05AM

CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TODAY AND TELL THEM NOT TO RE-INSTITUTE THE PRACTICE OF PRORATION IN KANSAS!! --> http://bit.ly/zWmko8 <--

This morning (1/30), the House Appropriations Committee held a preliminary
"discovery" hearing regarding whether to re-institute the practice of "proration" to determine SRS food stamp and other benefits in Kansas. Michelle Schroeder, SRS Director of Public Policy, made a presentation to the members of the committee about why the state chose to discontinue the policy.

Last year, the Union of Patriots was instrumental (along with former SRS Secretary Rob Siedlecki) in helping to overturn the old policy, which qualified illegal immigrant households for food stamp and other state aid while legal citizen households of the same size with the same household income were being denied that same aid.

The entire practice of proration (which is still being used by 47 states and the District of Columbia) revolves around the calculation of "household income." For example, let's say that the household income threshold for receiving benefits for a family of four in the state of Kansas is $2,300/month (approximately $27,600/year). A legal citizen household earning $3,000/month would be denied benefits (and rightly so), because they earn too much money to qualify.

HOWEVER, proration only counts the portion of household income that pertains to legal citizen members of a household, and excludes the portion of the household that is being earned by those that are not of legal status. So, a household of two illegal alien parents and two legal citizen children making the same $3,000/month, by the previous proration formula, would only have 1/2 of the household income - $1,500 - counted for the purposes of qualifying for food stamp aid. This family would not only qualify for full food stamp aid, but also utility assistance, subsidized rent, free lunches, and a whole host of other programs that the legal citizen family does not qualify for - even though the two households earn the same income!

Needless to say, the Brownback administration is doing the right thing by standing by their new, NO-PRORATION policy - and we need to stand by the Governor against this attempt by the left and the illegal immigrant lobby to "turn back the clock" and re-institute UNFAIRNESS and UNEQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW!

--- CALL THE MEMBERS OF THE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TODAY! ---
The full link to all of the committee members' contact information is HERE ---> http://bit.ly/zWmko8 <---

Here are the members of the Appropriations Committee:

CHAIRMAN
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Marc Rhoades
Phone: 785-296-7682
Email: marc.rhoades@house.ks.gov


VICE CHAIR
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Kasha Kelley
Phone: 785-296-7671
Email: kasha.kelley@house.ks.gov


RANKING MINORITY MEMBER
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Bill Feuerborn
Phone: 785-296-7688
Email: bill.feuerborn@house.ks.gov


MEMBERS
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Anthony Brown
Phone: 785-296-7679
Email: anthony.brown@house.ks.gov

Barbara Ballard
Phone: 785-296-7697
Email: barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov

Sydney Carlin
Phone: 785-296-7657
Email: sydney.carlin@house.ks.gov

Richard Carlson
Phone: 785-296-7660
Email: richard.carlson@house.ks.gov

Ward Cassidy
Phone: 785-296-7696
Email: ward.cassidy@house.ks.gov

David Crum
Phone: 785-296-7639
Email: david.crum@house.ks.gov

Pete Degraaf
Phone: 785-296-7693
Email: pete.degraaf@house.ks.gov

Jim Denning
Phone: 785-296-7665
Email: jim.denning@house.ks.gov

Doug Gatewood
Phone: 785-296-7698
Email: doug.gatewood@house.ks.gov

Lana Gordon
Phone: 785-296-7652
Email: lana.gordon@house.ks.gov

Jerry Henry
Phone: 785-296-7688
Email:jerry.henry@house.ks.gov

Marvin Kleeb
Phone: 785-296-7680
Email: marvin.kleeb@house.ks.gov

Harold Lane
Phone: 785-296-7650
Email: harold.lane@house.ks.gov

Peggy Mast
Phone: 785-296-7685
Email: peggy.mast@house.ks.gov

Joe McLeland
Phone: 785-296-7681
Email: joe.mcleland@house.ks.gov

Virgil Peck
Phone: 785-296-7641
Email: virgil.peck@house.ks.gov

Joann Pottorff
Phone: 785-296-7501
Email: joann.pottorff@house.ks.gov

Sharon Schwartz
Phone: 785-296-7637
Email: sharon.schwartz@house.ks.gov

Clark Shulz
Phone: 785-296-7684
Email: clark.shultz@house.ks.gov

Gene Suellentrop
Phone: 785-296-7680
Email: gene.suellentrop@house.ks.gov