ALBANY – People who perform government-assigned jobs in return for public assistance must be paid according to federal minimum wage standards, the state Court of Appeals held Thursday in blocking state efforts to intercept half of a $10,000 lottery prize that a man won after leaving his “workfare” job.
The court, in a 4-2 vote, said the seizure of $5,000 from the scratch-off lottery prize Walter Carver won in 2007 would reduce the pay rate for his government-assigned job to below the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 an hour and violate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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