Conservative judge halts monthly payment for low-income families in Democratic-run city after critics claimed the program was open to abuse

Conservative judge halts monthly payment for low-income families in Democratic-run city after critics claimed the program was open to abuse READ MORE: Huge rise in taxpayer-funded programs offering no-string handouts of up to $36,000 By Laura Parnaby For Dailymail.Com Published: 20:37 BST, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 20:45 BST, 22 July 2024 e-mail View comments A conservative judge has halted monthly payments for low-income families in the Dem-led city of St Louis after critics claimed the program was open to abuse. Circuit Court Judge Joseph Whyte has granted a 15-day injunction to prevent $220,000 in basic income being handed out to hundreds of poor residents.

It came in response to a lawsuit filed by former Republican Party chairman Fred Hale and counselor Greg Tumlin, who cited a clause in Missouri 's constitution prohibiting the granting of 'public money or property to any private individual'. The program was designed to give 540 low-income families $500 monthly payments, in echoes of similar taxpayer-funded 'guaranteed income' schemes being rolled out across the country. But critics blasted the poverty projects after it emerged one mother-of-three in Washington DC spent more than half of a $10,800 lump sum payment on a luxury holiday to Miami, a new wardrobe for her children and a 'glow up' for herself.

Critics blasted the poverty projects after it emerged Canethia Miller (pictured), a mother-of-three in Washington DC, spent more than half of a $10,800 lump sum payment on a.