13.5 billion of Road Home money allocated to Louisiana for hurricane Katrina that was unfairly distributed to homeowners.

To understand why this petition is needed go to my blog at: http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS WARNED AGAINST FAMILY LAW CORRUPTION More state revenue is raised from alimony collecting, motivating longer duration alimony than justified An American Bar Association (ABA) web site (abajournal.com) is inviting comments on a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) letter sent to “Dear Colleague” on March 14, 2016 which addresses current state and local court practices that run afoul of federal law. The letter sets forth the requirements of several principles that need to be followed to correct the situation. Press coverage of this important development however reported only on Principles 1 thru 4 relating to harmful effect of fees and fines associated with the illegal enforcement of court ordered support payments upon the indigent and minorities. What has been ignored is the DOJ’s less emotional concerns, Principle 7, which addresses opportunities for wrongdoing (corruption) when contractors are hired to act as proxies. An example can be the Florida Department of Revenue (DOR) employing a private contractor as its State Disbursement Unit (SDU) to implement the federal Welfare Reform Act by having it take over management of court ordered support collecting that creates data for calculating how large its reward from the federal government will be for collecting the support. Principle 7 of the DOJ letter (https://www.justice.gov/crt/file/832461/download) warns that “Courts must safeguard against unconstitutional practices by court staff and private contractors.” That means the payment management practices they carry out is suspect, as explained by DOJ’s analogous examples (last two paragraphs, page 8 of the letter) since DOR is the Act’s designee and has a pecuniary interest (revenue generation) in the outcome of its decision on which court ordered payments its contractor collects (the more child and spousal support contractors collect, the greater the incentive rewards DOR can receive.) One example of the illegal activity associated with misuse of the federal Welfare Reform Act is Florida having its contractor ignore the federal regulation establishing nationwide that spousal support is alimony for custodial parents so it consequently receives a larger, undeserved, percentage portion of the Act’s shared incentive fund pool by also accounting for lifetime alimony collecting that is not spousal support. Therefore nationwide implementation of the Act is unconstitutional because bureaucrats are allowing some states to not comply with the law while denying the compliant states protection by choosing not to impose available penalties and stop the resulting fraud which is harming them by reducing their percentage share of the incentive payment pool. I documented Florida’s harmful government program fraud in my blog dated March 2, 2016 http://borisbermesblog.wordpress.com which was emailed to federal law enforcement with my request for an independent investigation of that situation, but there has not been any acknowledgement of my request. Therefore I hope anyone not in agreement with the apparent thinking that an investigation is not warranted will let the ABA know by going to their web site at http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/article/justice_department_warns_local_courts_about_illegal_enforcement_of_fees_and and post a comment. (Published April 2, 2016 on my Facebook page under title “Corruptive Effects of Lifetime Alimony”)

SUPPORT ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TANF - CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE. WORKING WILL BE WORTHWHILE AND PEOPLE WILL MOVE OFF OF WELFARE AND LOSE RESENTMENT , GAIN SELF RESPECT. CHILDREN WILL BE SAFER.

SUPPORT ADEQUATE FUNDING FOR TANF - CHILDCARE ASSISTANCE. WORKING WILL BE WORTHWHILE AND PEOPLE WILL MOVE OFF OF WELFARE AND LOSE RESENTMENT , GAIN SELF RESPECT. CHILDREN WILL BE SAFER.

Public Employee Retirees have not received a COLA in several years to offset the cost's of healthcare premiums, co-pay's, deductibles and out-of-pocket-expenses, which were imposed by the Public Employees Retirement Board.

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within 2 days, the letter had more than a dozen cosigners, but to date, Rep. William Clay has not signed on. Sigh to urge Rep. Clay to sign the letter.

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within two days, the letter had more than a dozen co-signers, but to date, Rep. Lois Capps has not signed on. When struggling families encounter serious illness, they need to be supported in order to keep our entire country strong.

Last week Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits," and asked their colleagues in Congress to join them in taking a clear stand against efforts to cut America's social safety net. With the gap between the wealthiest Americans and everyone else steadily growing, we must demand that our lawmakers protect these programs that support the elderly, the poor and the vulnerable in our society. We need to make sure that every member of the U.S. House of Representatives knows that their constituents want them to take this vow to protect these vital programs.

Last week Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits," and asked their colleagues in Congress to join them in taking a clear stand against efforts to cut America's social safety net.

Museum 44 is a youth violence prevention program named in honor of the "44th President Barack Obama. The desired program format is the use of TV & internet to reach our targeted audience and curb youth violence in urban communities nationwide. We feel this program not only should be acknowledged, but supported, endorsed and promoted by ALL legislators NATIONWIDE!

Representatives Alan Grayson and Mark Takano released a letter to President Obama promising to "vote against any and every cut to Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security benefits." Within 2 days, the letter had more than a dozen cosigners, but to date, Rep. Mel Watt has not signed on. We want to know definitively that Rep. Watt will stand up against Republican efforts to cut the social safety net.

Senate Bill 899 is not fair to injured workers. It gives the enployer the OPTION of approving or rejecting medical treatment for injured workers. This responsibility should be mandated back to the insurance company. It took 3 years for me to get treatment for an on the job injury. THE DOCTORS DON'T LIKE IT, THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ATTORNEYS DON'T LIKE IT AND INJURED WORKERS DON'T LIKE IT EITHER, SO.HOW DID THIS BILL GET APPROVED?