They called it the "drunk check."
Disability Lifeline-Unemployable, a decades-old program that provides cash grants to the injured or mentally ill, has long been derided as free money for freeloading addicts.
Last month, in their quest to balance the $5.1 billion budget shortfall, state legislators did away with Disability Lifeline.
"We don't know what people are doing with the money," Sen. Joe Zarelli (R-Ridgefield) told the state's cable TV channel, "so we eliminated that [and] save the taxpayers a lot of money." ...