Social Services Minister uncertain as to eligibility of all current public support program beneficiaries?

​Social Services, Family and Gender Affairs Minister Catherine Daniel is now calling on Dominica Labour Party (DLP) supporters, to provide the Government with information on its public support program?
 
At a Town Hall Meeting in Roseau last week, she revealed, “Among the things that we are seeing, as I came in as Minister, is that there are people who have children receiving foster care, and these children are adults of ages, 21 to 28, who are now working, and these people are still receiving the foster care. As a family of labour, these are some of the things you can help us to do. You can help us if you know this is happening, because as you know our resources are challenged.”
 
Daniel reported that the Current Public support programs include the ‘Yes We Care’ Program, and the ‘Foster Care’ Program. She noted that in Roseau Central, there are 56 people in the ‘Yes We Care’ Program, while in ‘Foster Care’, there are about 30. She advised that Government has spent over $116,000 on these programs. About $108, 000 went to the public assistance, and about $8,600 to Foster Care.
 
Daniel said if it wasn’t for the Citizenship By Investment (CBI) Program, the country wouldn’t be where it is today, in terms of these programs “and so we solicit your help in rectifying a few problems. If you know of people who are receiving these monies who should not be receiving them, come to the office of Social Services and talk to us, we will do the investigation, we won’t just take it up, we will do the investigation”.
 
However, many Dominicans are of the view that the information should be better organized and controlled, so that the Minister should have had that type of detailed information available on file in her Ministry.