Connecticut became the 48th state in the nation last week to prevent the state from putting a welfare lien on someone’s home. Advocates and faith leaders took a victory lap Tuesday but they aren’t stopping there.
“To buy my own home at 50 years old, first of all, was amazing because I came out of poverty,” Renee Blake said.
But when social service workers told Blake they planned on putting a $70,000 lien on her home for assistance she received 40 years ago, she said it was heartbreaking.
Read Christine Stuart’s full report at NBC Connecticut
