Found Yet Another Loophole
..and why not? It's been this way our whole marriage...if there's a crack or loophole in the government system, we will slide right through it.
I talked to our caseworker about food assistance today. Wanna take a guess at how much help we will get? Go ahead. Throw a number out there...$400? I wish. $250? No. $200? No. Try $16. You read that right...one and six. $16 for the whole month, and it's only for Ed and Jonathan, so they're each getting a not-so generous $8 each. The State of Michigan will only give food assistance to Ed and Jonathan, because Eddie, Dave, and I are full-time students. In their minds, since we are full-time students, we can also work since everyone else is required to do it.
I have no problem with that; in fact, that's what I've been trying to do for the past four months since I quit my job! Technically, I have a job, but I can't begin earning until I get my license and begin selling. David has been trying for the better part of a year to get a job, but no one will have him because he has no prior work experience. No one wants to give him the chance. I'm not sure with his autism, how well Eddie will hold down a job. I explained all this to my worker, and she said she totally gets it, but this is what Michigan requires. How nice of them to hyperfocus on this one rule to the EXCLUSION of all the other factors in our situation! Until we get jobs, we don't get to eat apparently.
Jackasses. Thanks for absolutely nothing.
We aren't asking for a lot of money. We can meet most of our bills with Ed's and Jon's SSI money, we just need that little bit of help to eat and get supplies. You'd think we were asking them to support us for absolutely everything. Well, my folks are helping and Ed's folks are helping so we are fine, but I need to have a long overdue discussion with my congressmen and my house representatives because this is ridiculous. Ed and I have both paid into the system for 31 years, and this is what we're subjected to? We've always been honest, hard-working people, and we pay our taxes without fail every year. We ought to be freaking Citizens of the Year because we volunteer in our community and live a squeaky-clean life. Now we get slapped in the face?
Oh, I was so hot earlier. I was still nice to the caseworker...it wasn't her fault...but I seriously want to stomp up to Lansing and raise some unbelieveable hell on those idiots.
So....moving on. I refuse to be angry, bitter, depressed, or upset. God is in control, and we will be fine. But to be honest, I'll be glad when I start earning, and I can figuratively flip the bird at those fools in Lansing once and for all.
I talked to our caseworker about food assistance today. Wanna take a guess at how much help we will get? Go ahead. Throw a number out there...$400? I wish. $250? No. $200? No. Try $16. You read that right...one and six. $16 for the whole month, and it's only for Ed and Jonathan, so they're each getting a not-so generous $8 each. The State of Michigan will only give food assistance to Ed and Jonathan, because Eddie, Dave, and I are full-time students. In their minds, since we are full-time students, we can also work since everyone else is required to do it.
I have no problem with that; in fact, that's what I've been trying to do for the past four months since I quit my job! Technically, I have a job, but I can't begin earning until I get my license and begin selling. David has been trying for the better part of a year to get a job, but no one will have him because he has no prior work experience. No one wants to give him the chance. I'm not sure with his autism, how well Eddie will hold down a job. I explained all this to my worker, and she said she totally gets it, but this is what Michigan requires. How nice of them to hyperfocus on this one rule to the EXCLUSION of all the other factors in our situation! Until we get jobs, we don't get to eat apparently.
Jackasses. Thanks for absolutely nothing.
We aren't asking for a lot of money. We can meet most of our bills with Ed's and Jon's SSI money, we just need that little bit of help to eat and get supplies. You'd think we were asking them to support us for absolutely everything. Well, my folks are helping and Ed's folks are helping so we are fine, but I need to have a long overdue discussion with my congressmen and my house representatives because this is ridiculous. Ed and I have both paid into the system for 31 years, and this is what we're subjected to? We've always been honest, hard-working people, and we pay our taxes without fail every year. We ought to be freaking Citizens of the Year because we volunteer in our community and live a squeaky-clean life. Now we get slapped in the face?
Oh, I was so hot earlier. I was still nice to the caseworker...it wasn't her fault...but I seriously want to stomp up to Lansing and raise some unbelieveable hell on those idiots.
So....moving on. I refuse to be angry, bitter, depressed, or upset. God is in control, and we will be fine. But to be honest, I'll be glad when I start earning, and I can figuratively flip the bird at those fools in Lansing once and for all.