Reply To: Education Expenses should not be recognized as income regarding social services

Social services are meant to be a safety net for those who can’t make it on their own. I happen to fit that category, I work full time my wife works part time & we have B’H 9 children. Tuition & day camp is what’s sinking my financial boat. As long as the private school is no more expensive than public school I don’t see why the cost of education should not be calculated as an expense just like utilities or mortgage interest are.
The government loses nothing by me sending to private rather than public school.
For the safety & wellbeing of my children, I cannot send them to a public school. I don’t want them getting hooked on drugs, edited suicide & many other modern ills of western society.
So after sending my kids to a safe school, I am just as financially needy as a poor homeless guy at the soup kitchen, am I less deserved of food stamps to feed my kids? Do I need to call Tomchei Shabbos?