There’s no excuse for the city’s swollen welfare rolls, says the Big Apple’s former welfare czar, who is blasting the approach taken under the de Blasio administration.
“Given the strong economy in the New York City region, I would think the caseload would not be rising,” ex-Human Resources Commissioner Robert Doar told The Post.
Doar, who led the agency from 2007 to 2013 under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, took issue with current Commissioner Steven Banks’ excuse last week that the welfare rolls are at a nine-year high because the de Blasio administration is more honest.
The Bloomberg administration, Banks said, kept welfare numbers down by unfairly kicking people off the rolls.
But Doar scoffed at the claim: “We believed in enforcing the rules. We think that helped move more people into employment and increased their incomes.”