It is worrying about paying things that you took for granted, like paying the water bill or just buying food for the week.
I have found that services are more or less, well less... I am at poverty level currently and find that I make too much for Medicare and this is just one services that I couldn't get I have not even tried to apply for food stamps. Since each one I have tried for I am told I make to much.
My understanding is poverty level is anything under $1500.00. I make on SSDI about half of this which I found to be odd since I remember my father telling me that SSI and SSDI were so you can live once you retire or are disabled.
Living like you were living when you worked not being afraid that you want be able to eat next week.
They have more and more programs to help you with your needs but you have to spend your time reapplying, filling out forms for multiple programs and then your told you don't qualify a month later. And they say you can apply on line but then your told you need to bring your information in. So, you spend the gas to go over to the facility to get assistance just to be told a month later that you don't qualify. So each time you go you spend money you really don't have on gas.
And the biggest thing that bothers me about it is when you ask why you didn't qualify since I am way below poverty level I get told by some poor girl that is basically a paper pusher that I don't have that information and she don't know who would.
I have to wander if this is happening to most people that are applying for different programs and if the government is just wasting money on paper pushers to keep us from knowing that these programs really don't have money in them.
I know of people that have been on the programs, that I have applied for and they are getting help on them but they make more than I do. So, my question again is are any of the people currently within the last year getting benefits. Or is this program just for ones that have been on it since they are running out of funds?
Poverty level is at 15,000.00 a year I do believe. I make under 12,000.00 and I don't seem to be getting any answers to this question when I ask. So, I asking the world now.
I rather be working but I know I can't handle employment currently with my health so I working on my health and hoping that my husband finds employment soon.
We would like to have at least enough to pay the doctors that have helped me in the past year.
The USA current situation has me wandering how are government got us to this point don't they realize that we are only as strong as our poorest. We should be to the point that we have very few poor.
And I have to wonder how these congressmen can sleep at night knowing that they have laid off people from the government their entire wages and they didn't first cut their own salaries. I have been working in some way since I was 11 years old and this is the first time I have needed help.
And most programs seems to be geared to give the man a fish to feed him for a day.
Not teach the man to fish and feed him for a life time.
I can't get rehab but I can see the doctor if I am ill. I need the rehab just as much has the doctor for the illness, if not more. Since I want to some day hopefully in the never future get back to working.
I feel fortunate. We had stocked up on food before my husband got laid off so we have not had days that we didn't eat something. But it is getting to the end of our stock pile so each day is a little more of a worry.
Just curious if anyone had any ideas on this subject.
I will get off my soap box now. Thanks for reading my hen scratch.