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To: American Dream 246

The email is BS. If she is getting that much in SSDI she was making much more than $330.00 per week. Perhaps she had a high paying job at one time but the email does not indicate that.


16 posted on 10/13/2012 6:12:34 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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To: lastchance

I agree with you. The story just doesn’t sound right.

When I first got out of college and married, I worked for two years as a claims rep for Social Security. This was back in the early 70s.

SS Disability was really difficult to get. I would guess 90% of people who applied were turned down. After being denied one could file for a re-consideration. Practically no one ever got it on that.

Nearly every one who was approved, was by the administrative law judge after a hearing. I think they made the process long and drawn out to weed out as many as they could.


24 posted on 10/13/2012 6:27:40 PM PDT by yarddog
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To: lastchance
The email is BS.

It can't be BS, it came from a government office in Nigeria!

29 posted on 10/13/2012 6:35:14 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong!)
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To: lastchance

country has to know., lastchance wrote:
The email is BS. If she is getting that much in SSDI she was making much more than $330.00 per week. Perhaps she had a high paying job at one time but the email does not indicate that.

I agree.There are too many myths about those on “relief” $330 X 4= $1320.00 monthly X 12 =$15,840.00 yearly. Under todays regs she would still qualify for food stanmps if she was employed and making that $330 weekly..

But that $700 allowance on the EBT card is for a family of 4 and most states restricts the type of purchases to food. 4 years ago a package of corn muffin mix was .25 cents. Today it’s priced at many stores for a buck, likewise all of your can goods generic mushroom soup for example is a buck. As far as steak goes that $700 bucks won’t go very far at todays prices which is around $8-9 bucks a pound if that’s all you eat.

WHAT EVERYONE IS FORGETTING IS THOSE PRICES ALONG WITH EVERYTHING ELSE HAVE BEEN DRIVEN UP BY THIS ADMINISTRATIONS ENERGY POLICIES

Housing allowances vary for the region your living in and once again at near 16 G’s a year she probably would qualify for assistance in that area including energy bills.

That brings US to the $379.00 we are giving her weekly but its not based on that previous employment. It’s based on disability. Now is she a disabled single mother of 4 or is she gamiing the system ?


66 posted on 10/13/2012 8:06:48 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (The best way to punish a - country is let professors run it. Fredrick the Great para/p)
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