[HungarianGypsy]

I still don't understand how anyone could live on welfare. My family had to be on it for a little bit. It's amazing how the case workers seem confused when you tell them that you plan on being out of the situation in a few months.
Anyhow, the food stamps are worth a lot. There is the medical. The cash for two adults was 200 dollars a month. They do not help with utilities or rent unless it is at the eviction or turn off stage.
This was three years ago.
I remember a year later when one of my children needed to see the doctor for some reason my mother-in-law asked why we didn't check into the state insurance for our children. I told her that we now made too much money to qualify and there was no way I was going to deal with the government again.

[Shalom Israel]

I still don't understand how anyone could live on welfare. My family had to be on it for a little bit. It's amazing how the case workers seem confused when you tell them that you plan on being out of the situation in a few months.

Tell me about it! I wasn't on it myself, but a sister in my church signed up for assistance for her children, when her deadbeat husband decided to move for the umpteenth time and she refused to uproot the kids yet again... the case worker was flabbergasted that she didn't plan on divorcing him, and urged her to reconsider. He pointed out the great welfare benefits that she could only get if she had no husband. It's a disease.

Anyhow, the food stamps are worth a lot. There is the medical. The cash for two adults was 200 dollars a month. They do not help with utilities or rent unless it is at the eviction or turn off stage.

There is subsidized housing, of course. I knew an older fellow in upstate NY who got somewhere in the neighborhood of $600/mo in food stamps alone. He was living with a woman, also on welfare, and they refused to marry because it would cut their benefits. (I don't remember if $600 was their combined total, or only his share.) He ate much better than I ever did, I can tell you that.