LOS ANGELES — The California mother of octuplets already receives food stamps and disability payments to help feed and care for her six other children. Publicist Mike Furtney said Monday that Nadya Suleman receives $490 a month in food stamps.
She also receives disability payments for three of her six previous children, but Suleman did not want to disclose the nature of her children's disabilities or the nature of those payments.
In an interview that aired Monday, Suleman told NBC "Today" show anchor Ann Curry that she does not receive welfare.
“In her view these are just payments made for people with legitimate needs and are not, in her view, welfare,” Furtney said.
“She just believes that there are programs for people with needs and she and her children qualify for some of them.”
Suleman's octuplets were born Jan. 26 in a Los Angeles area hospital.
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