Rapper 50 Cent has slammed New York City‘s plan to hand out pre-paid cards worth a combined $53million to migrants to use at bodegas, supermarkets and delis.

Mayor Eric Adams estimated the scheme will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually as it will stop wasting money on meals the asylum seekers do not want.

The pilot program is being rolled out at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, with 500 families involved, The New York Post reported.

A family of four will get a card loaded with $1,000-a-month, equivalent to $35 a day.

But 50 Cent took to Instagram on Saturday to hit out at the scheme and suggested Donald Trump is the answer to the city’s problems.

Rapper 50 Cent has slammed New York City ‘s plan to hand out pre-paid cards worth a combined $53million to migrants to use at bodegas, supermarkets and delis

The pilot program is being rolled out at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, with 500 families involved. A family of four will get a card loaded with $1,000-a-month, equivalent to $35 a day

Mayor Eric Adams estimated the scheme will save the city $600,000 a month, or $7.2 million annually as it will stop wasting money on meals the asylum seekers do not want

The rapper shared a post on Instagram about the plan to hand out pre-paid cards for migrants to buy food and 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 supplies.

‘WTF Mayor Adams call my phone,’ he wrote. ‘I don’t understand how this works, somebody explain this. I’m stuck, maybe TRUMP is the answer.’

It comes after the artist, who was born in New York City, questioned why migrants were being handed free healthcare in California.

‘I don’t understand this, this it going to cost 2.6 billion dollars for tax payers,’ he said on January 3.

‘They don’t even give veterans health insurance. @arimelber call my phone now, help me understand this s**t. WTF.’

The New York City program will see those selected will be given cards which can be only used at bodegas, supermarkets and delis.

Migrants must sign an affidavit promising to only use the cards for food and 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 supplies, or else have them cut off.

It is unclear how the City of New York will know if they’re just being used in bodegas as intended.

The amount on each card will depend on individual circumstances. It is unclear how city officials will check if cards are being abused – and if the scheme will worsen the crisis by encouraging other migrants to head to the Big Apple in the hopes of receiving free money.

A family of four could be provided nearly $1,000 each month, which is $35 per day for food for the four.

At present, each migrant meal costs $11, so feeding a family of four for a day could cost up to $132.

Cards will get refilled every 28 days.

Rapper 50 Cent shared a post on Instagram about the plan to hand out pre-paid cards for migrants to buy food and 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 supplies

Hundreds of asylum seekers lined 7th street and Avenue B in Manhattan

The scheme was used last year for residents of public housing, so they could buy food for the holidays.

‘Not only will this provide families with the ability to purchase fresh food for their culturally relevant diets and the 𝚋𝚊𝚋𝚢 supplies of their choosing, but the pilot program is expected to save New York City more than $600,000 per month, or more than $7.2 million annually,’ said Kayla Mamelak, Adams’s spokesperson.

The program is being run by a company founded by a former Wall Street financier, Wole Coaxum, called MoCaFi.

Its website describes MoCaFi as ‘a financial services platform for the 110 million Americans dealing with economic hardship and no path to a better circumstance.’

Coaxum said: ‘MoCaFi looks forward to partnering with New York City to disburse funds for asylum seekers to purchase fresh, hot food.

‘MoCaFi’s goal is to expand access to financial resources for individuals excluded from banking, such as asylum seekers, while helping the local economy.’

If the program is a success, the city will expand it to the estimated 15,000 migrant families staying in hotels.

Around 70,000 migrants have been bused or flown to New York City over the past year, putting extreme pressure on the Big Apple’s resources.

Texas’ conservative Governor Greg Abbott began sending migrants to NYC and other Democrat-run cities which bill themselves as ‘sanctuaries’ for border crossers to show them just how much pressure the crisis has piled on border states.

His plan appears to have worked – with Democrat lawmakers now taking a far tougher stance on the crisis and President Biden himself vowing to take stronger steps to tackle it.