Mayor Eric Adams is ending his administration’s controversial program supplying migrants in city shelters with prepaid debit cards to pay for groceries. Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images 5 ...

New York City will end a pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families to help them buy food. New York City launched the program earlier this year. It allowed migrant families to ...

The program, which began in late March, provided debit cards for food and baby supplies to 2,600 migrants who arrived in the city and were staying in hotels funded by the city.

It served as a possible replacement for a meal delivery program that generated significant waste and was projected to cost $5.6 million — more than double the price tag of the food debit card ...

NYC officials defend prepaid debit card program for illegal immigrants: 'There is no free money' The $53M program is currently conducting trials for 10 migrant families, with plans to scale up to ...

New York City will end a pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families to help them buy food. New York City launched the program earlier this year. It allowed migrant families to buy ...

New York City will end a pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families to help them buy food. New York City launched the program earlier this year. It allowed migrant families to buy ...

New York City will end a pilot program that gave prepaid debit cards to migrant families to help them buy food. New York City launched the program earlier this year. It allowed migrant families to ...