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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just add on do they look at unearned income like dividends/rental income?

It is just stupid that they don't look at assets.  Someone could own a million dollar home,  have million dollar 401ks and future pensions but still qualify for free montessori.  Just another part of the Arlington Way.[/quote]

This is one of those harmful myths that has no basis in reality. People who meet the income threshold basically never have substantial assets, but requiring extremely low-income people to produce all the documentation to prove that they [i]don't [/i]have assets often causes them to drop out of the process (e.g., produces false negatives). An assets test just keeps lots of low-income people, who do meet the income requirements (and, in truth, the assets requirements) out of the program, to keep the one-in-a-million high-assets-low-income person out.

If you have a million dollar home, you have to pay real estate taxes, utilities, and upkeep--in addition to your family's living expenses. You have some kind of income, that likely exceeds the income thresholds for these programs. [/quote]

This. There isn't rampant fraud. And they verify income, even for those above the threshold but below the top of the sliding scale. [/quote]

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