Wait, did you get SSI or SSDI? If the latter, it should be pretty much automated once it finally gets rolling, plus there's back pay if you can prove you've been disabled for a while before applying, and eventually medicare (which, if you're lucky, may be contracted out to a private insurance company for the same as your medicare costs... which actually means cheaper, better coverage by a LOT since you aren't splitting bills 80/20 anymore
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Whichever one you don't have to have worked to get is the one I'm getting. I literally cannot ever remember. I've never worked a "real job", so I can't get the other kind.
Obviously, if I don't know how much I'm getting, I don't know how much I am allowed to have/not have or make/not make, which is part of what is making me so monumentally fucking angry. Because I am basically waiting to find out how small this box I have to spend the rest of my life in IS. I don't know the limits and the thresholds, so I don't know how screwed I am. And I get to wait for them to tell me. Which I expected, but it's REALLY MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. :P
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I agree with you about fucking that forever. There are workarounds, I'm sure, but there shouldn't have to be. You should be allowed to have savings. We never actually manage to do so, but it should be allowed at least.
I hope you would be able to refinance based on the letter they'll send with what your monthly income will be, even without the back pay. The refinance game is a bitch, though.
Also: food stamps, we are on them. And part time jobs are a complete nope. I literally cannot work outside the home EVER, or even IN it routinely. Never ever happening. I'm legit sick, and will be FOREVER, which is they part that they, and most people, do not seem to understand.
I do have backpay coming, I'd BETTER, for at least the year I had to wait while they dragged their butts on the floor, and hopefully for the time since I was diagnosed, back in '07. They aren't saying shit, though, yet.
And yes, I'm going to become good friends with cash. Deeeefinitely.
I just got approved for SSID as well. I'm scared and feel like I have just checked into some sort of Big Brother program where everything I do will be monitored and judged. I feel like I have been living in a state of abject terror for the last two years--ever since my employer told me in April that I would not have a job after May--and me being only 2 years from being able to retire
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I tore a pair of panties off the other day, She-Hulk style. Not on purpose, but because they gave, like "ALL RIGHT, HERE'S THE MONEY SHOT." Hilarious. Having most of your underwear be like that? Yeah, not so much. I've waited three years to get new shoes because I can't afford the only ones I can walk in without pain. >:(
Glad you'll be getting teachers' retirement. Sheesh.
I hear you, and it simultaneously both blows and sucks. Kinda makes you wish you could just get them to pay up mobster style by taking a baseball bat to someone's kneecaps. [Yeah, I have my own stories about the frustrations of living on 'benefits' too.] But the police frown at that, so you use the tools you got to get them to actually do their job.
The first year or three is the worst, after a while you kinda get numb to it. It just becomes a thing you have to live with, admittedly a shitty one though. But you know how it works, you develop emotional calluses and mostly you get used to it eventually.
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Obviously, if I don't know how much I'm getting, I don't know how much I am allowed to have/not have or make/not make, which is part of what is making me so monumentally fucking angry. Because I am basically waiting to find out how small this box I have to spend the rest of my life in IS. I don't know the limits and the thresholds, so I don't know how screwed I am. And I get to wait for them to tell me. Which I expected, but it's REALLY MUCH WORSE THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. :P ( ... )
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I hope you would be able to refinance based on the letter they'll send with what your monthly income will be, even without the back pay. The refinance game is a bitch, though.
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I want recipe.
I do have backpay coming, I'd BETTER, for at least the year I had to wait while they dragged their butts on the floor, and hopefully for the time since I was diagnosed, back in '07. They aren't saying shit, though, yet.
And yes, I'm going to become good friends with cash. Deeeefinitely.
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I tore a pair of panties off the other day, She-Hulk style. Not on purpose, but because they gave, like "ALL RIGHT, HERE'S THE MONEY SHOT." Hilarious. Having most of your underwear be like that? Yeah, not so much. I've waited three years to get new shoes because I can't afford the only ones I can walk in without pain. >:(
Glad you'll be getting teachers' retirement. Sheesh.
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after 15 years of damaged/deficient ACL, and finally ACL replacement surgery, I do totally know how important Real Shoes are.
Could I buy your shoes please? It's something I can afford to do, and I want to. Support The Artist, like, directly.
LMK via email, thishandle at gmail, if that'd be okay.
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The first year or three is the worst, after a while you kinda get numb to it. It just becomes a thing you have to live with, admittedly a shitty one though. But you know how it works, you develop emotional calluses and mostly you get used to it eventually.
Still sucks though.
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