Rumors fly around the homeless community and most of them seem to come to nothing.
Recently a rumor that a well known homeless man in the park had died while waiting in the emergency room at a local hospital made the rounds. Most of us believed it, especially when someone surfaced who said the police had called her and she had gone to the morgue to identify the body. Still there is one special friend to this man who outright refuses to believe he is dead, even though the weeks pass and he has not shown up at their usual meeting spot.
The LOYALTY!
However, there seems to be no merit in the wild rumors going around that the amount of General Relief will rise to $300 or $500 next month. No one has received an announcement that this is true from General Relief itself and that is what they do, send you a letter, telling you your benefits are over, starting, cut, increased, or decreased.
We think the confusion may be with a grant that started a couple years ago for people in the GROW program who are presently housed. The amount was enough to help someone pay a friend for the privilege of staying a a small room or on the sofa, using the shower and so on.
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