Q: Is it fraud to apply for and receive rental assistance if you don’t actually need it?
I had an attorney make me apply for rental assistance although I had the money to pay my rent, the landlord even sent it back. The attorney handled all kinds of things wrong - made me sign an agreement to move out that’s left me with a retaliatory eviction instead of using the evidence I had to fight my case, made all communication go through him and then said he wasn’t my attorney and ignored me after court including emergencies w the apartment, made me sign up to get rental assistance by threatening me with being set out immediately, he honestly seemed to work for the landlords more than me. Did he make me commit fraud? Can he threaten me for not getting assistance when I have the money to pay my own rent? The eviction was for being a hold over tenant but really it was retaliation for complaining about a convicted meth trafficking neighbor and needed repairs. They resorted to eviction when raising the rent didn’t force me to move. Video, text, photo all prove retaliation.
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