i thought ssi is a form of depression medication… that made a lot of sense
Fuck, I’d sure like to be living in the fantasy world where America is that generous. You might get that much with a severe disability in a super high COL area, but it’d be hard fought and the invasion of your privacy is going to be absurd to make sure you’re not ‘abusing’ it.
Sec 8 is hard in a lot of places too. Most times you get stuck with the most dogshit landlord in the most dogshit apartment building in the most dogshit area of the city.
So how does that hinder shitposting?
There’s no way they get that much in benefits.
I know the benefit system they spend the entire time trying to get around paying anybody anything, anytime they feel like they’ve not hassled you for a while they send people around to check on you.
There is no way wau anon is getting away with that. They hardly ever pay the legitimate claimants
Ssdi ranges from 943 to 3627 per month depending on your work history. It’s a pension system so if you’ve paid nothing into it you get the minimum. It can also pay a bit more depending on state because some states have supplements in addition to the federal payment
Section 8 is tough depending on where you live. Some places around here the wait list is so long that it’s literally years and as a result they won’t let new cases join until old ones are purged; which is this nightmare process where they contact you if you’re on the list and if you don’t respond you’re kicked off and then a few spots may open up and people scramble to apply for the day they’re open.
The attitude is generally “you don’t have a job so you can spend your time managing your benefits”. For some people this isn’t wrong but for a lot of people it’s a serious issue; they’re disabled so they don’t work because they spend their time managing their healthcare, or they don’t have the capacity to manage this kind of stuff to begin with, etc. but in a lot of places there’s little sympathy for this and then your benefits are cut, the process to re-enable them can take weeks or months, and in the interim that can mean you lose housing, access to medical care, etc
(the most ive ever been paid from SSI is like 600 a month when i was still on it.Pretty sure SSI caps around 1000 ish usd but im on ssd so not sure. One of my friends was on ssi for 400 a month. Its insane to me that i get more money than this and my ssd income is on par with minimum wage. Meanwhile everyone else without my lucky situation has far less.)
Here’s something actionable: find an elderly couple you visit regularly who are physically okay. Sign on as their carer and get paid. If they’re married, get them to divorce and to claim separately and then split the money three ways. If anyone asks why they’re living at the same address, just say that they can’t stand each other but are forced to live together for financial reasons.
Survive? No, thrive
If I quit uni today and applied for social security and unemployment pay I’d be way better off financially. A friend of mine actually did that for a semester when she was desperate, despite being a keen and interested student. Not being in education or training can be temporarily easier than being in education or training.
What is a neet?
Basically jobless adults who are not students.
Not in Education, Employment, or Training
Considering the bills they don’t have to pay, they actually make more than I didn’t a month with a job.
The secret ingredient is crime.
in conversation with The Perfect Match: “I accept money I didn’t earn”
American anons olny live in Alaska
