There has got to be a story here. More likely the woman needs therapy or mental health counseling than jail.
In this day and age with section 8, food stamps and 70+ other programs how could anyone live that way?
Alcoholic.
You would be surprised at how difficult it can be for a formerly middle-class person to get state assistance of any kind.
If you are white, often you won’t qualify. Seriously. I had a DES employee tell me that to my face.
Wondering the same thing. I'm usually pretty unsympathetic to boozers, but this is one of those moments when the quiet, but persistent nagging voice of Jesus won't let me brush it off as just another story about human refuse.
I hear you. The woman has issues.
The people behind the desk will go home to their warm place, eat reasonably well if they so choose, and probably watch some TV before curling up in bed until the morning. The "client" is just another sheaf of paperwork to most, another checkmark on the page and another case in the file--IOW, job security.
If you worked and genuinely became disabled, if you lost a decent paying job, if you have any assets, you could be in for a long wait. The five star cases are the ones which keep on going, same names and stuff, even through generations, not the ones who are looking to get back on their feet and out of the system.
If you are the latter, don't expect much.