So does ANYBODY on SSDI get enough to NOT be on food stamps and medicaid?
Neither myself nor my wife get Food Stamps. Our total disability checks combined is $1500 month. We both are on Medicaid/Medicare yes because our income is low. We do not qualify for Food Stamps because our income is too high. Now Medicaid was actually origionally for the Disabled worker and his/her minor children who met income guidelines as well as orphaned children of the wage earner.
My cousin who doctors tell him his next heart attack or the one after will take him is on disability. His three prior by-passes was it they can't help him no more just make him comfortable. On good days he deer hunts though.
He's out lived the prognoses given so far. It took him two years and a lawyer to get his first check and that was about 2 years ago. He is single and draws $1600 a month disability. He is neither eligable for Medicaid nor Food Stamps and pays the Medicare premium too boot.
Yea quite a few. Sorry I misread your question slightly. My sister draws I think roughly $2400 a month in disability. She was not Medicaid nor FS eligible for two reasons. Her husband left her substantial life insurance that meant no Medicaid and meant she went to private insurance. She is on Medicare now due to the automatic kick in after two years disability. The money she got in life insurance will last her almost 5 years at the rate it is going now.
Dementia in her case requires assisted living in a secured portion of the facility so she can't walk off. That alone approaches $6000 a month. She gets high disability payment because her husband made good money up till the last few years he lived when layoffs hit. That was also at the time her strokes happened so it wiped out their life savings. Her husband had just gotten back on his feet money wise for the most part when he died. He was two years from retirement at 65. Before his death they had little savings though.