----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:34 PM Subject: Re: Social Security
> One minor nitpick here.... > > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Dan Minette wrote: > > > The marginal value of working for someone on welfare is a real problem, > > but I think we can mostly seperate it from the problem of one spouse > > working for 20k/year and the other spouse thinking of taking a 20k/year > > job. Medicaid limits are too low to be comsidered. Head Start (for > > pregnant women and for children under 6) applies, but that's fairly > > limited. The other benefit that I can think of them losing is the > > earned income tax credit. If no one says that they've already > > calculated this in an hour or two, I'll go to last year's copy of > > TurboTax to make a calculation. > > Head Start is a preschool program for low-income children. > > The program you're thinking of is WIC - Women, Infants and Children. It > helps pay for certain sorts of foods at the grocery store. (I've bought > cheese with "WIC Approved" stickers for years. Just happened to be the > sort of cheese I wanted to be buying, but it was nice to know that it was > considered nutritionally sound enough to be covered by that program.) > > Julia > > see, I *am* following the thread :) It's actually now called Healthy Start... http://www.legalaction.org/medicaid2.htm from looking at the website to writing it, I transposed it to something I remembered for years. :-) Dan M. see we were _both wrong <grin> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
