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.
“We do not qualify for Food Stamps because our income is too high.”
Have you rechecked the numbers lately? I could swear I saw them at $28k recently.