You could be threatened with JAIL for not spending your stimulus check on rent
Updated: 11:51 ET, Jun 9 2021
YOU could be threatened with jail time for not spending your stimulus check on rent – just as a young single mother in Wisconsin was.
Cassandra Beatty, 22, may face two months in jail for contempt of court after she did not use her stimulus check to pay back her rent despite an eviction moratorium.
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Cassandra Beatty, 22, faces jail over the rent paymentsCredit: Getty
She was told by a judge in Oneida County during an April hearing that she had to hand over the third relief check to her landlord.