Harris County’s Basic Income Welfare Program Now Features Pre-Paid Debit Cards, Some Conditions

Harris County’s Basic Income Welfare Program Now Features Pre-Paid Debit Cards, Some Conditions

Authored by Holly Hansen via The Texan Houston, Texas | Image by Discover Beautiful World/Shutterstock Some new details are emerging about Harris County’s previously quashed but now revamped “guaranteed basic income” welfare program.

The Texas Supreme Court issued an injunction on the pilot program (Uplift Harris) earlier this year, which would have given hundreds of dollars in taxpayer money to roughly 2,000 qualifying individuals without conditions, as previously reported by The Dallas Express .

Now, it seems Harris County commissioners have resurrected the program in the form of a pre-loaded debit card that can only be used […]

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