Being on Welfare

[McDreidel09]

I thought welfare had a time limit.

Unemployment has a time limit. I'm not too sure about welfare.

[telecom_goddess]

I thought welfare had a time limit also....and the whole point behind it was to help people get jobs to support themselves. But they make it impossible to get the job, or you end up in the cycle of the OP here....where it's easier and cheaper to just stay on welfare. IT's ass backwards.

[muses_nightmare]

Me and my husband may have to go on welfare, given it will only be temporarily, until he is well enough to work again. He basically gets screwed out of any other help, because of what he's qualified to do (He's a registered X-ray Technologist), and because he was working casual at the hospital he was working at so he can't get EI. Even with that we probably won't be making much more than rent, because of the fact that I'm in School. And if I get a job that changes, even if I could only be working 2- 3 days of the week.

I only got $1500 in student loans for the past 6 months, to put it this way, a 3 month quarter at my school costs over $5000, closer to $6000. They gave me $1500 for 6 months. They count the car we're still paying for as an asset instead of a debt, and they don't count the fact that my husband has just started paying off his own student loans into the debt factor.

[Flyndaran]

My social security case after over two solid years of hired lawyering reached a judge. She ruled partially in my favor so I now qualify as disabled.
It will now take WEEKS to get my approval paperword long before any actual monies will come.
It sickens me to think of all those poor people that don't have a mother to carry them financially. What are they supposed to do, not eat for a couple of months?

[SorryIsGoodEnough]

Know what else I hate?

When they decide to randomly end my benefits. I got a letter in the mail telling me that since I would no longer be receiving cash benefits (TANF) they were giving me temporary supplemental food assistance.

Say what?

So I called and found out my cash and medical benefits were denied. I have at LEAST two psychiatric appointments a WEEK, and my health is very, very poor. Rent is due, as are the rest of my monthly bills. They just sprung it on me.

Nobody could give me a reason why my benefits were suspended, nor why I got no warning. Luckily, my tearful pleas were heard and they reinstated my benefits after a couple hours trying to get through their call volume to talk to someone. Even then, they acted like it was no big deal. NO BIG DEAL!? I have a child under the age of two to take care of!

When I do everything I'm supposed to, including getting my education and psychiatric help so that I'm fit to return to the workplace eventually...I don't deserve this. I'm not abusing the system, I'm not cheating it, I'm TRYING to be self sufficient.

I HATE BEING ON WELFARE.