The worker who figured my onset date decided that my onset was after I ended up in the wheelchair. fully, 10 months after my application. Even though I was discharged from a temporary job because of the pain medication I was on following the back surgery that was failed and the diagnosis of permanent nerve damage and chronic pain. Then, their policy is that you must be unpaid disabled for 7 months before you can get your first payment. My attorney's office claimed my past due amount for the 25% common attorney fee and for the medical records and copy fees. My entire monthly check will go to my landlord for monthly rent and for the past due amount I owe for the last 4 years I have been unable to work and pay rent. I am blessed that he didn't put us out on the streets, and I owe him a lot for the past 4 years....but I still have to buy and cook meals separately for me and my son, and they are cutting my monthly benefit from 347 a month to less than 200 a month. You can't buy very much healthy, natural foods on that much :(
RE: the subject of the thread. The increase is a federal law and everyone gets it.
Your personal situation: (I’ve pinged someone who posts knowledgeably about the subject in hope they can provide you assistance,)
I assume the SNAP benefits decreased dramatically for you because you haave a $700/mo increase in your income, technically. But you don’t.
Were you able to input the back rent payments into your SNAP application?
Please understand that I am sympathetic to your situation and appreciate your response.
A healthy diet would require another 50 to 100 dollars/mo IMO.
“My entire monthly check will go to my landlord for monthly rent and for the past due amount I owe for the last 4 years I have been unable to work and pay rent.”
I’m sorry to hear this is still happening with your landlord, but it doesn’t have to be. You’ve mentioned in many posts in the past that you take care of his dog, you do his laundry, you cook his meals (which I remember he forced you to do even the day you were recovering from surgery), and you clean up after him, etc.
Those things add up to real work that people get paid real money for. Likely, if he were to hire it done, it would surpass whatever your half of the rent would be.
So if he balks and pushes you for the back rent, you should present him with a bill for back wages and see about calling it an even trade — chores in exchange for rent. That’s what I would do anyway.