California Welfare "Welfception" Is Actually Wild
The IHSS caregiver program lets someone on Medi-Cal pay a family member or friend $72,000 a year in taxpayer money to "care" for them. You just need to be over 65 or claim disability.
The kicker: the person earning that $72k can STILL qualify for Medicaid themselves.
Christopher Rufo is the one flagging this, so take the framing with a grain of salt. But the underlying mechanics are real and genuinely worth scrutinizing. IHSS costs California $30 billion a year and the oversight is basically nonexistent.
This influencer claims she can collect $6k/mo from the State of California to "stay home and protect [her] autistic child." The IHSS program has become a shadow UBI system—and costs California $30 billion per year. "You have to do it! You gotta do it!"
California's IHSS program lets Medicaid recipients funnel $72k/year in state money to family members who can simultaneously qualify for Medicaid themselves, and the $30B program has almost no guardrails.
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