We’ve got good news for taxpayers in the Great State of California. You get to help support our country’s first surviving set of octuplets!!

Nadya Suleman, the 33-year-old mother of six who gave birth to eight babies two weeks ago, has been receiving public assistance benefits, The Los Angeles Times has learned.

Nadya, of Whittier, California, will receive $490 a month in food stamps, in addition the so-called octomom receives SSI benefits for three of her children, who are disabled, according to The Times.

As you may recall, in a recent interview with The Today Show’s Ann Curry, Nadya said that she was not on welfare.

“I’m not receiving help from the government. I’m not trying to expect anything from anybody. [I] just wanted to do it on my own. Any resources that someone would really, really want to help us, I will accept, I would embrace.”

Well, she has an interesting reason for saying that.

“In Nadya’s view, the money that she gets from the food stamp program … and the resources disabilities payments she gets for her three children are not welfare,” says Nadya’s publicist Michael Furtney . “They are part of programs designed to help people with need, and she does not see that as welfare.”