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Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets last month, is getting public assistance.
According to the
Los Angeles Times, the 33-year-old Whittier, Calif., resident will receive $490 a month in food stamps. Three of her first six children are also disabled and receiving federal assistance. (Her publicist Michael Furtney declined to reveal the children's disabilities.)
See 8 photos of the newborn octuplets!Suleman recently told the
Today show's Ann Curry that she was not on welfare. (Suleman and Furtney didn't consider the food stamps and SSI to be welfare, according to the
Times.)
Watch a video of Nadya Suleman's eight new babies!"In Nadyas view, the money that she gets from the food stamp program ... and the resources disabilities payments she gets for her three children are not welfare," he said. "They are part of programs designed to help people with need, and she does not see that as welfare."
See today's top celeb news photosThe revelation comes after Suleman's mother Angela said she
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