Bencosme and her husband were living on Mr. Bencosme�s disability benefits of $710 a month, her Social Security payments of $163, and about $400 in food stamps.
Pablo de Jesus returned to the Dominican Republic last year, taking a daughter who missed her mother.
But at first, the adults and four children � Pablo Ovidio, 15, Martin, 10, Yasmin, 9, and Shaylin, 8 � slept on a bunk bed and a queen-size bed. When the bunk bed broke, Mrs. Bencosme and her son Pablo Martin took turns sleeping on a mattress on the floor for three months.
Mrs. Bencosme still complains that her back aches
Source link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/nyregion/26neediest.html?ref=nyregion
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