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That's what I'm thinking.....it's
the only time I've seen you can get away with more income or
assets....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:07
PM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Man Kept Tiger In
Public Housing
It
could be though where they have more kids. Probably a more plausible
reason.
For the most part they are, and
you just described them here to a t. Ditto for Louisiana...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:53
PM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Man Kept Tiger
In Public Housing
Well I know when Neil and I first got married and moved out on our
own, he was only working at Hardee's and making probably $13,000 a year.
Our rent per month was $300 along with electric and phone. With all that
we were bringing in less per month than what was going back out. We also
had a POS escort that was falling apart. As much as I didnt want to do it
I went and got food stamps. We were getting quite a bit but I still used
them carefully and made them last the whole month. About a month before
Neil switched jobs (which would have ruined us on them anyway) we had to
buy a new car b/c our old one died. They totally cut off all of them b/c
they said if we could afford a new car (not that we could, just had to
have it and got the cheapest, most reliable we could find) then we could
afford to buy food. Now as I said, it wasnt that big a deal b/c right
after that he got a new job which I was just waiting for him to get so we
could go off them anyway. But with 2 kids, you had to be making less than
$25,000 a year and your car could be worth no more than $4000 and your
monthly bills such as rent/electric/phone had to total over half your
monthly income.
But I was under the impression that programs such as the food stamp
program were federal guidelines, not state guidelines.
In a message dated 10/6/2003 1:28:51 PM Eastern
Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That pisses me
off to no end right there. I know for a fact that if you try to apply
for food stamps, you are turned down if your car is worth more than
$1000. My aunt got turned down for them b/c she had to buy a new car.
Even then it wasnt a brand new car, but her old one was no longer able
to be repaired and she got a used car that had problems on its own,
but it was a newer car and still had a higher value on it and she was
turned down. She is working two jobs and going to college and has 2
kids to take care of. She has a deadbeat exhusband that was able to
get out of paying any kind of alimony or child support due to mental
illness causing him to be disable and unable to work. She does get a
social security check for her kids in the amount of $75 a month, which
doesnt even pay her electric bill. How fair is it that someone who is
trying but just needs a little extra help cant get any help
simply b/c she needed a reliable car to get her too and from work. And
for the record her car is a 96 cavalier that she bought in
99.
i don't know how it works where you are from, but
here we still got our food stamps (card) with no changes and we HAD to
but a 2000 auto for about $16kthe only killing us on food stamps is that
jackie had to get a job to pay for our rent.
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