Paterson guaranteed income program begins giving $400 payments to residents

Paterson guaranteed income program begins giving $400 payments to residents

Paterson Press PATERSON — Monserate Reyes — one of 110 residents who received $400 debits cards earlier this month through the city’s experimental guaranteed income program — says she has already spent most of her money on food.

“Food is very expensive now,” said Reyes, 55, who said she works two part-time jobs — one as a home health aide and another going door-to-door encouraging people to get COVID-19 vaccines.

Reyes was one of the lucky winners in what city officials say was a lottery to select which people would get the monthly payments from among more than 5,000 low-income Paterson […]

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