An Afghan migrant in California asked his boss to pay him in cash so he could keep getting $84,000 a year in welfare benefits, According to Steve Hilton – a California Gubernatorial candidate
Hilton says that this isn’t isolated, but in fact he says, California -under Gov. Gavin Newsom -has a bigger fraud problem than Minnesota.
According to sources close to the situation, the migrant, resettled in the Golden State after
Biden’s hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He came to the US and immediately started receiving multiple different welfare benefits –
think Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and the Afghan Support and Investment Program
(ASIP)
Hilton said that Afghans rake in thousands each month for healthcare, housing, food stamps, and more.
But since you can’t receive benefits if you make more than a certain amount, the migrants work under the table for cash – avoiding taxes and keeping their taxpayer funded benefits.
“A few weeks ago, a business owner here in California told me that one of his new employees asked to be paid in cash not on payroll.”
“Why, the business owner asked? Well because the employee from Afghanistan was worried that he would lose his welfare payments. How much is that? $7000 a month. That’s 84 thousand dollars a year here in California.”
“So when we look at this massive scandal in Minnesota, a billion dollars from the social services system and fraud and corruption. You can be sure it is much worse right here in California.”
“We already know that over $20 billion in pandemic from EDD scandal was sent welfare payments to people jail on death row, people who are dead. We know over 24 billions completely lost home business spending.”
“All that money spent and we still have situations like this all over California everywhere you look. That’s why today I am calling for a complete and total audit of every part of California’s bloated welfare state.”
“So we find the corruption, the fraud, waste in Gavin Newsom’s California. End it.”
California’s RCA dishes out about $1,400 a month per household in cash and CalFresh
benefits.
This is layered on top of Medi-Cal health coverage and housing vouchers—often totaling far more than $7,000 a month per person, scaling up fast for families.
Multiply that by dependents, and $84,000 isn’t that far fetched.
Since 2021, California has pumped over $500 million into Afghan resettlement alone, per state audits—and with Newsom’s sanctuary-state stance blocking federal immigration checks, fraudsters face zero blowback.
