#Benefits Programs

[somerandomg33k]

"Someone said to me...."

"I mean giving everyone everything they need is unrealistic and people are gonna abuse the hell out of it."

I am afraid many folks believe this. Many Liberals in fact.

But confuses me is that if folks aren't 'abusing it,' then folks are not using said systems.

Granted, social services in the USA are means test to hell and are design to keep folks off of those programs instead of being so inclusive that it actually benefits the folks that need those services. But "we can't have folks take advantage of 'MMMYYYY Tax paying dollars." Urg.

[luetta]

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[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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[widowshill]

lowkey after like a week and a half of doing mild research into media archives I believe that most old tv should be public domain by default, considering studio execs were basically wiping their asses with the tapes but now want to posture about their copyright when it's a miracle from heaven any of the footage from that era exists

[upathosarts]

trying out csp. might be biased but i dont like it very much

[chronicallycouchbound]

I refuse to call government assistance programs “welfare” or “benefits”.

I’ve been on government assistance programs my whole life. I have never lived above the poverty line.

It’s a system that doesn’t care about my wellbeing, they care about doing the bare minimum to keep people alive enough to function and work, and if you’re disabled and cannot work, they give significantly less of a fuck.

And benefits?? What benefits?

Food stamps that run out within two weeks because I am budgeting with 8$ a day with literally dozens of dietary restrictions? Or do you mean the housing voucher that I have to never even have a gift card, penny to my name, Sams club membership, phone bill, literally anything that could be “income” in order to qualify? That same housing voucher system that if I mess up even once with I not only lose all government aid for at least 5 years, it’s also mandatory PRISON time for 1 year?? “Oh but they would never do that, right?” Nope! I have several friends who are now felons for minor lease violations and unhoused as a result! Oh maybe you mean the state health insurance that doesn’t cover most treatments, specialists, and testing I need and if I tried to make a gofundme to cover, I would lose aforementioned housing? Oh and we can’t forget all the money I get for being disabled, which is exactly 0$. I’m still fighting for SSI and have been for 6 years! That’s over 6 years with absolutely zero income. ZERO. And guess what, whenever I *do* get on SSI, I will lose my housing voucher. And I won’t be able to afford my current apartment because even in subsidized low income housing it’s too expensive for the maximum SSI “benefit” amount. And on SSI you can’t have savings over 2000$. Oh and they do make housing for people who are low income where you pay 30% of your income but I can’t even be on the waitlist since I don’t have any income. And on top of all this, I can never get married because I’ll lose all of the programs.

I could keep going. That’s not even half of the programs I’m a part of.

• None of them give me cash in hand. Even for vouchers I have to provide receipts for everything.

• Food stamps just straight up won’t even cover ineligible items. Which includes hot foods.

• I genuinely don’t believe that there’s a way to “game the system” and why would you? You would gain literally nothing.

• It’s designed to keep people poor. Once you make over a certain amount, you lose all or almost all benefits. There’s no way to slowly transition out of the programs, if you’re someone who’s able to. It’s all in or all out.

• All of these barriers are made significantly worse while unhoused/homeless. I’ve been homeless for over half of my life and there’s so many fucked up rules. If I missed one night staying in the shelter, I lost my housing voucher because I no longer was “verified as homeless” even if I was sleeping outside still.

[creepyscritches]

RFK Jr having to have healthcare civics explained to him during his confirmation hearing for the HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY POSITION is insane. He's constantly talked about lowering costs, but it's so revealing that the civics he's having explained are largely centered around BASIC FUNDING FLOWS

[kirby-the-gorb]

[bumlets-appreciation-blog]

Can you guys believe that the Children's Aid Society that ran the Newsboy Lodging House on Duane Street is still around? It's just Children's Aid now but a name change is expected after operating for over 170 years. It's one of the oldest (and largest!) non-profits dedicated to helping children and has helped found programs ranging from holiday toy drives to free school lunches. Obviously, any program this old and this big isn't perfect but it's nice to see that even after all these years, they're still trying to help.

[rosicheeks]

Someone going to therapy regularly is such a green flag 💚💚

[artemisbarnowl]

I say this every time I rewatch Stargate sg1 but calculating overtime must be a PAIN.

[alwaysbewoke]

[driftwithme]

My favorite headcanon is that Shatterdomes have special rooms for their local pilots, because they were supposed to live there most of the time.

You know Raleigh and Yancy's holographic clock that would alert them of any kaiju attack with all the immediate information about it? Like that.

The Beckets had that clock, a kitchen, a punching bag for training in their room, they had the Lady Danger logo on the wall... I'm just saying that it'd be cool if every pilot duo had their rooms similarly personalized.

Or better, they had their rooms personalized for them. I like to believe people would show them certain kindness and consideration because at the end of the day, they were the crazy ones willing to pilot a giant machine to kill the kaiju.

[officialkendallroy]

hiii please feel free to ignore this, but exactly how popular is afd party among german public? social media is giving a very skewed impression of the size of their voter base.. or maybe i am just in denial and hoping that it is not so popular 😅 i was surprised to see even a few people in their 20s praising their policies online

before the vote today they predicted the afd at 20%...... they're massively popular, second most voted party (at least in the predictions). theyre more popular in eastern germany (where im from too) but they gained popularity throughout all ages and regions. i don't think your perception is skewed at all, even young people (especially in the east i would say) are falling for the propaganda. i think tiktok had a huge influence on that bc the afd was such a big presence on there and other parties couldn't keep up with it fast enough which led to many young being going down the afd rabbit hole. i also think due to covid and the loneliness rates going up rapidly and young people being affected by it the most that also sent people down the conspiracy pipeline and made them more vulnerable for the alt right way of thinking (there was a study on this I did a paper on it's actually kinda scary). our own political bubble really warps our perception of how things actually are and that's the case for me too!