NYC spent $9M in taxpayer dollars sending $5 bills with surveys — but most were thrown in the trash

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NYC spent $9M in taxpayer dollars sending $5 bills with surveys — but most were thrown in the trash

By Matthew Sedacca
July 1, 2023

This mental health survey may not be so good for the city’s fiscal well-being.

The city shelled out $8.8 million in taxpayer money to produce and send out mental-health questionnaires that contained $5 bills as an incentive for filling out the forms — but many likely wound up in the trash because the envelopes looked like junk mail, galled critics told The Post.

The Health Department, working with the City University of New York, sent the surveys to 210,462 households in early May with a goal of netting 50,000 responses — but only 12,759, or an abysmal 6%, replied as of June 27.

“They’re taking a gamble that [even] 10% of people will open it. That’s bananas!” Jennifer Crocker, 37, who happened to open her mailer, told The Post.

“The city is throwing away our money.”

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/nyc-spent-9m-sending-out-5-bills-with-mental-health-surveys/

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You just cannot make this sh*t up.