Mom loses benefits after status of 4 kids changed to dead
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. — A Rhode Island mother says she lost her child care voucher when the state’s new benefits computer system mistakenly changed the status of her four children from living to dead.
Jasmine Tinker is a substitute teacher at Head Start, in Newport. The 25-year-old single mother’s three youngest children also attend the center.
Tinker tells The Providence Journal (http://bit.ly/2h1I7zb ) she was told last week her voucher expired and she would have to pay $750 out of pocket.