Nadya Suleman seeks donations as taxpayer bill grows

Nadya Suleman, America’s favorite unemployed, artificially inseminated, food stamp assisted, mother of fourteen, is going to be well paid for her lunacy.

A big share of the financial burden of raising crazy baby ladies 14 children will likely fall on the shoulders of California’s taxpayers, compounding the public furor in a state already billions of dollars in the red.

But truthfully the 33-year-old single, unemployed mother has been a patron of the state, caring for her six other children with the help of $490 a month in food stamps, plus Social Security disability payments for three of the youngsters. Suleman, whose six older children range in age from 2 to 7, said three of them receive disability payments. She said one is autistic, but she has not disclosed the other youngsters’ disabilities, and refused to say how much they get in payments. In California, a low-income family can receive Social Security payments of up to $793 a month for each disabled child. Three children would amount to $2,379.

The public aid will almost certainly be increased with the new additions to her family.

Just to help make ends meet though and cover any future plastic surgery Suleman might need she has created a website where people can make donations, leave comments or send items to her and her eight biblically named liter.  After the break check out the rest of the story and TMZ photo of what Nadya looked like eight days before giving birth to the octuplets. (warning might be considered NSFW).

Also, the hospital where the octuplets are expected to spend seven to 12 weeks has requested reimbursement from Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, for care of the premature babies, according to the Los Angeles Times. The cost has not been disclosed.

The Suleman octuplets’ medical costs have not been disclosed, but in 2006, the average cost for a premature baby’s hospital stay in California was $164,273, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Eight times that equals $1.3 million.

For a single mother, the cost of raising 14 children through age 17 ranges from $1.3 million to $2.7 million, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Suleman received disability payments for an on-the-job back injury during a riot at a state mental hospital, collecting more than $165,000 over nearly a decade before the benefits were discontinued last year.

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