{"id":31927,"date":"2024-02-21T16:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T16:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=31927"},"modified":"2024-02-21T19:47:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T19:47:17","slug":"mayor-adams-defends-debit-card-scheme-as-immigrants-in-nyc-exceeds-170000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/31927","title":{"rendered":"Migrant family of eight could get $2200-a-month under NYC Mayor Adam&#8217;s debit card scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: New York City Mayor Eric Adams has defended the recently launched debit card scheme, under which a migrant family of eight could get $2200 per month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>while addressing to a weekly news conference at city hall Mayor Eric Adams clarified that the cards, which are pre-paid debit cards &#8211; &#8216;not an American Express card&#8217;\u00a0 are intended to be used exclusively for food and baby supplies for the migrants.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor said that there is no place for immigrants in the city anymore, people have no choice except sleeping on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to reporters&#8217; questions about the introduction of a debit card scheme for asylum seekers, Mayor Eric Adams assured that this scheme will save taxpayers money and prevent food waste.&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p>Under this scheme, each person among immigrants will get 345 dollars per month, a family of three people will get 932 dollars per month, a family of four people with two children under the age of seventeen years will get 12500 dollars per month while a family consisting of 8 members will get 2200 dollars per month for the purchase of essential items.<\/p>\n<p>500 migrants will be included in this scheme initially and the\u00a0scheme will save the city government 7.2 million dollars annually, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: New York City Mayor Eric Adams has defended the recently launched debit card scheme, under which a migrant family of eight could get $2200 per month. while addressing to a weekly news conference at city hall Mayor Eric Adams clarified that the cards, which are pre-paid debit cards &#8211; &#8216;not an American Express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,32,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31931,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31927\/revisions\/31931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}