Essence Magazine:
By Malaika Jabali ·Updated October 5, 2023
“I lost all my rights. I felt like I failed my family,” Marcella Soto shares with ESSENCE. She was receiving welfare benefits and was in an on-again-off-again relationship with her husband. In 2018, during one of those off periods, she was charged with welfare fraud, as the courts presumed her husband was still residing with her, violating the conditions of government assistance.
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