Why not just go into a senior apartment. Hate basic stupidity.
Why not just go into a senior apartment.
...in FL.
Because the corrupt elite in Boston would rather give senior apartments to illegal aliens than US citizens.
Just ask BHO. He has his aunt Zeituni stashed in one.
I read it as combined but if it's $12k pension + SS + heating + whatever other perks, then she doing way better than this taxpayer. She could have at least sent us a thank you card instead of whining.
It's probably "annual pension and Social Security" together totaling $12K. And while it's not bad, it doesn't cover $3K for heating. I have the same problem and considerably less income. I couldn't dream of turning on the heat when the temp drops to 60 -- with three quarters of a tank needed to last all winter. I put it on when the outside temp is 22, and then it's just to keep the pipes from freezing and the house from being condemned because I couldn't pay a plumber to repair them.
As for senior housing, that costs taxpayers money -- her pension and Social Security are not welfare, and the woman worked until the age of 80. Also, when you apply for senior housing you are expected to have few assets and your house has to be sold or given away -- and a sale is factored into your financial qualifications. You never know until you sell your home, whether you're even qualified for housing assistance. Sell it in this market, and hope the sale won't count against you? Talk about "basic stupidity."
I'll shiver with the unmortgaged roof over my head rather than place myself permanently and irretrievably at the mercy of some bureaucracy that wants me to self-dispossess to qualify for their strings-attached charity.
Why not just go into a senior apartment. Hate basic stupidity.
Spot on!
My Mom (who has passed) lived in a real nice Senior Home here in Burlington, VT. and 30% of them were reserved for low income.
She got about $1,000/mos. SS and she only paid 1/3 of her benefits and that included heat, elctric and basic cable.
Can't imagine that the equally Socialist Republic of Taxachussetts does not have similar living arangements.