no obviously you have NO clue of any situation I have been in.
Yes there are parents that love their children who may happen to be on assistance, unfortunately there are those that don't as well.
Time to learn to use coupons.
My family is in a similar situation.
My dh qualifies as disabled due to end stage renal disease. He started working as a teacher and made too much income to still qualify for social security disability. However his take home pay after taxes, union fees, retirement fund, medical, etc is now less than what he got on disability.
We no longer have the tax benefits, we are going without family coverage because the premium would be 1/3 of his take home pay (not to mention $2,000 deductibles per person and tiered co-pays). Plus with budget cut backs he did not get a raise, nor will he next year.
Why should he work himself to fatigue and at risk for illness when it doesn't make a difference? Teaching is not a minimum wage job, he has a degree.
I would rather a 15 yr old go to school, concentrate on his studies and go on to college to have a better earning potential. Besides, who the heck is going to hire a 15 yr old? Not when others with more experience are looking for jobs.
A school can not diagnose a child with a disability, they can ask parents to have the child evaluated by a doctor.
SSI automatically qualifies for Medical aid, if there is other income coming in the SSI benefit will be cut back ..
Most people working with my dh everyday do not know he is disabled, unless he shares that information. He can play the "disabled card" but chooses not to unless he has a real need.
Exactly!
We had to live off SSI for two months ( at the time we had a 3 yr old and 3 month old, dh was too sick even to care for himself) while waiting for dh's benefit to start.. it was awful! Had just enough for rent and utilities, had enough food due to food stamps... but that was it. I cried the day we ran out of quarters for laundry, our hands were raw from washing clothes in the bathtub. Humiliation of begging for diaper money from family. We got through it but would never want to be there again.
umm, you are either disabled or not.. there is no partial in terns of social security disability. You can earn up to $680 per month ( ? it changes each year) and it will not effect your benefit or start the Trial Work Period clock.
Interesting, but the case workers barely have time to deal with the flood of applications, renewals and monthly reports now.
The last time dh sent in paperwork for his 6 month renewal for medical assistance as disabled, it took the worker 4 months to reply that yes he still qualified. I expect the next 6 month renewal packet to appear next week, the renewal approval letter arrived just two weeks ago.
Oh yeah.. got a letter today from Medicare informing us that the state was paying for Medicare premiums... starting August 2008
uhh what??
I hope that's not true.
What I said was that I personally would be ok paying benefits to someone even if it cost more if they were working, rather than sitting home on their butts even if it cost more in the end. If you would rather pay benefits to someone so they can sit home instead of work then yes, that's your opinion. I guess I never thought I'd hear someone say "I'd rather pay money to people who sit on their butts vs. someone who's working and trying to better themselves"...but ok.
I live in Iowa and you can get married here if you are a gay or lesbian. Come to Iowa and get married and this whole scenario goes out the window. I don't feel sorry for the "I'm gay it's not fair" excuse anymore. There are several states that will marry them so if they want to be married then GO DO IT. And being gay/lesbian doesn't excuse you anymore than anyone else for not financially taking care of your kids. I don't care what race/color/sexual orientation you are, your children are not my responsibility to provide for.
" to qualify for things...So if you try, you are turned down, so they think why not just sit on your butt and do nothing??
I have a sister-in-law who gets three checks monthly from the government, one for herself and one for each of her children. She chooses not to work, and "goes to college" (ie takes one, maybe two classes a semester if there's more than one that interests her). She receives full state benefits from housing to heating to food to medical/dental/vision care. Her children both have full braces and eyeglasses, and are VERY aware that they get these things for free because their mom doesn't think she should have to work; they are 16 and 14.
I work full-time, my husband works part time and goes to college full time (5 classes this semester, graduating in May); we qualify for nothing, and if I were to choose to add my DH and DD to my insurance at work I would have to pay the insurance company $200 a month on top of my full paychecks for medical insurance only; there is no vision or dental care available, so if there are medical issues we pay fully out of pocket. My DH has diabetes and is supposed to be on insulin; he only takes his metformin and we are very careful with his diet (which increases the food budget; there are no coupons for produce & fresh chicken/seafood that I've found). I need glasses for my distance vision but cannot afford them. My DH needs glasses and has them but has had the same ones for almost 5 years now, and they are held together with crazy-glue. My DD is developing some really cool symptoms that are making me think she's got seasonal allergies; hopefully there's something OTC that will help, because I sure can't afford to take her to the doctor!
Apparently we don't need assistance because we're so well off; DS-I-L however needs every kind of assistance known to government because she "can't find a job". (which is pretty easy to accomplish if you're not looking)
I'm not exactly sure why we're punished for our hard work and she's rewarded for her acute laziness.
Oh... in regards to the OP; it disgusts me too, but there ARE people who really need this kind of assistance and unfortunately the gov't can't control the amoral idiots who feel that they're entitled or don't care if they screw others over for their own benefit.
Ah, I bet your sister has found the same cheat that my lazy sister has. The state will issue a student loan for taking a full line of courses, ( thousands of dollars ) paid directly to the student, and all she has to do is take a minimum of credit hours to be enrolled ( hundredds of dollars ), and pocket the rest of the money. Technically, she would have to pay back the loan ( not very likely ) but you only have to pay back after you have graduated ( no time limit as to how long your in school ) she will keep this up for years.
UUUGH!!!! 
