You got to have Eyuge genes.
Therein lies the rub. What happens when somebody on disability finds a job which pays too much for them to remain on disability, then gets worse and has to quit? They’re screwed until they’re approved for disability again, that’s what.
SSDI Ticket To Work(PDF)
I’ve been part of my area’s mental health community for nearly 25 years don’t recall ever hearing of that. When did it start? More importantly, is it going to change under this administration?
No idea. I’ve been on SSDI since 2005 and it was going then.
Change the name and the tale is told about you.
If you think you’ll never to be welfare, think again. I had to go on it in my recent past after an accident left me unable to work for a year, and unable to find a job for two years.
The system did nothing to help me find work, or even to encourage me to work. THIRTEEN different people told me to "go on disability.’
Finally, I took a temporary part-time holiday job as a store cashier in 2013. I am still there, working full time.
I’m glad I had the chutzpah to tell 13 people “FUCK YOU.”
I was under the impression that most forms of assistance actually discourage you from going to work, because your job income exactly offsets the benefit. If you get $1000/month assistance, then you get a part-time job that yields around $600, your assistance drops to $400, while you incur the overhead costs of having a job. I assume the offset is based on gross income, so the situation might even be worse than just the basic offset.
But, you know, if people are poor, they deserve it because of their poor choices. Everyone should make a concerted effort to not be born in the slums.
You wouldn’t think so if he was living in your basement.
Do you promise?
You haven’t posted in nine months, so you revive a 3-year-old thread for this little bit of spite? What’s up with that?
More importantly, did curlcoat keep his/her promise?
Sort of? Last activity is listed as of February 2019, so hasn’t been back for over a year but obviously did not leave in 2017.
curlcoat posted three times in February 2019 about his/her cat. Those are their only posts since the last post to this thread in 2017.
Your (uncited) stat there, if accurate, isn’t actually evidence that “it’s somewhat unusual for working families to be poor”: it’s evidence of the converse, namely, that it’s unusual for poor families to be working (that is, to include someone who’s working full-time and year-round).
But AFAICT your stat isn’t accurate, unless perhaps it’s counting all poor individuals instead of poor families, or defining “poor” differently? According to this source, 6 out of 10 children in low-income families had at least one full-time year-round working parent.
Oh yeah. Never mind.
Thanks, for all of them. So long!
Update: I recently had to go into a homeless shelter for six weeks. In order to get any help finding a place there, you had to meet with Social Services. I had a full time job for the past five years, but I had to meet with Social Services?
Fortunately, I’d worked enough with Welfare to know they want to get people on welfare in order to get them off welfare, thus improving the numbers.
Fuck that. I got a place on my own.
I was very, very close to being able to donate an old car of mine to a charity that does the exact same thing (but with cars. Obviously).
My old Dodge Stratus was on its last legs, and I desperate to find a new car. Supposedly this place would take pretty much any car, so long as it still ran, and fix it up as best they could and sell it for cheap to needy people. Unfortunately, in the couple weeks between getting my replacement car and working things out with the charity, the Stratus stopped running, so it couldn’t be donated. I was really bummed, as I was going to miss my very first car, and wanted it to go on to someone who could appreciate it as I had.
Hopefully the next time I’m in the market, I’ll have more leeway to find a new car, and this one won’t be on its very last legs while I’m shopping around.
I’m from a pretty conservative family, and have never once heard that sentiment. More along the lines of, “it’s shitty this happened, but now is the time to pull yourself up on your bootstraps and work 110% harder to get out of this shitty place.” I realize that this doesn’t make conservatives out to be hateful monsters though, so it’ll likely get completely disregarded :rolleyes:
It’s very very hard to have any self-respect or initiative when every government agency is telling you to get welfare and/or disability. They just beat you down until you agree to go their way and get paid for not working.
My city Social Services worked with us to set up a program that would pay all the rent of anyone agreeing to put in 4 hours a month doing volunteer work. We had to kick ass to get most of the tenants to do so, and the complaints. One person I remember objected to being told to put up the litterin the park because “the grass is wet.”
With the subtext being that if you aren’t able to do so its because you are lazy. Potayto, potahto.