Family That Received Monthly $1K Checks in Year-Long Pilot Program Reveals How it Changed Their Lives

Family That Received Monthly $1K Checks in Year-Long Pilot Program Reveals How it Changed Their Lives

Homeless man with his cart seated at the street eating a sandwich (Credit: Ruben Earth/Getty Images) A Texas family that received an extra $1000 per month from a new low-income pilot program in the city of Austin says the additional funds over the past year were life-changing.

“We were homeless or half homeless, half living in a shelter,” mom of four Stephanie Hendon said of life before the program.

And with no car, she said her husband was “catching 12 buses a day to get the kids back and forth to school.”Hendon and her family received financial relief from a non-profit […]

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