#Minimum Income Requirement

[lexlawuk]

Understanding Exceptional Circumstances in Spouse or Partner Visa Applications under Appendix FM

In the realm of UK immigration law, securing a spouse or partner visa under Appendix FM is a process fraught with various requirements and conditions. However, what happens when meeting these requirements becomes an insurmountable challenge? This article delves into the concept of exceptional circumstances within spouse or partner visa applications, exploring avenues for those who find themselves…

[not-poignant]

oof i just wish i knew the magic secret to 'liveable income' re: writing that didn't involve 'taking everything original offline and making people pay for it outright.'

because like...

i like my way of doing things. but my bank account hates it. :/

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

Saw a place we liked, and we are going to apply but the whole process is just. Turning my stomach.

[rami-ajr91]

🚨🚨This is my only hope to save the life of my child and my family🚨🚨

My name is Rami Al-Ajrami, and I am a devoted father from Gaza. At 35 years old, I am proud of my three beautiful children: Elaine, 7 years old, Kinda, 3 years old, and my precious son Nasser, 4 years old.

I work in the field of electricity. I was away from my family for many years to work so that I could build our beautiful home. The war came and destroyed all my hard work and work over the past years. It was lost in the blink of an eye, and with it the beautiful memories of my home and family. They were reduced to piles of rubble.

In addition to that, I had a small shop that sold electrical appliances, which served as a source of income for me and my family as well. Unfortunately, my shop was completely destroyed and I became without a source of income.

In the midst of this miserable situation, my heart aches for my son Nasser, who is 4 years old. My child, Nasser, was born without a thyroid gland, and doctors discovered this late, which negatively affected his mental and physical development. Before the war, he was receiving treatment in private rehabilitation centers, and now he is in poor condition without care or even the minimum requirements of life, such as medicine, food, clean water, clothes, milk, and pampers.💔

I ask every living conscience to help my family by donating or participating🙏🙏

Pictures of our house, shop, and Nasser's health reports are attached here .

Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #191 ) here.

[criminal-sen]

Well I went from having free health insurance to paying $180/month plus a thousand dollar deductible, I literally feel like I just got fucking mugged

[ilucyliu-blog]

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[3liza]

here's the cost of living breakdown for Alabama, one of the least expensive states in the country to live it. annual income requirement to achieve "barely not struggling" (that's what "living wage" means, it means "how much money you have to earn to not be struggling financially") by the standards of MIT are the bottom row.

the website SmartAsset applied the 50/30/20 budget rule to this data from MIT to calculate how much it would take for someone to live comfortably (ie, above bare minimum "living wage") in each state and concluded it takes a minimum of 78k for a single adult in West Virginia, the cheapest state in the country.

standard disclaimer that I have personally never made anything near a living wage in my life, much less a comfortable wage, and am deeply in medical debt and so disabled I can't stand for more than a few hours a day. i just think it's important that other Americans are fully aware of just how poor they really are, and what "wealth" actually means in vast regions of the country. inflation and housing price increases have been so rapid, and the percentage of young adults managing their own households has dropped so significantly in the past twenty years (these things are related), that 90% of this website userbase is just completely unaware of what anything costs, and this isn't good for your financial literacy or ability to take care of yourselves.

if you disagree with these numbers please email MIT directly, I did not gather or compile this data. and cannot respond to your feedback about it.

[specsthesecond]

https://www.tumblr.com/specshroom/752286251279908864/some-rather-unlucky-investments-have-landed-you-in?source=share

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[carriesthewind]

"The problem, however, is that the city’s chatbot is telling businesses to break the law....

If you’re a landlord wondering which tenants you have to accept, for example, you might pose a question like, “are buildings required to accept section 8 vouchers?” or “do I have to accept tenants on rental assistance?” In testing by The Markup, the bot said no, landlords do not need to accept these tenants. Except, in New York City, it’s illegal for landlords to discriminate by source of income, with a minor exception for small buildings where the landlord or their family lives...

The NYC bot also appeared clueless about the city’s consumer and worker protections. For example, in 2020, the City Council passed a law requiring businesses to accept cash to prevent discrimination against unbanked customers. But the bot didn’t know about that policy when we asked. “Yes, you can make your restaurant cash-free,” the bot said in one wholly false response. “There are no regulations in New York City that require businesses to accept cash as a form of payment.”

The bot said it was fine to take workers’ tips (wrong, although they sometimes can count tips toward minimum wage requirements) and that there were no regulations on informing staff about scheduling changes (also wrong). It didn’t do better with more specific industries, suggesting it was OK to conceal funeral service prices, for example, which the Federal Trade Commission has outlawed. Similar errors appeared when the questions were asked in other languages, The Markup found."

Kathryn Tewson is stress-testing the bot over on bluesky and has found it will provide some truly horrifying responses:

[lexlawuk]

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[metalheadsforblacklivesmatter]

Why not make this because I'm just a filthy commie.

My thoughts on Disability (getting paid because you can't hold down a job due to your disability).

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)

It should at least be minimum wage. (And minimum wage should cover average cost of living in that region.)

Housing, electricity, and plumbing should just be covered. Also accessible transportation.

Medical costs should be covered. 100%

It should supplement food (and restrictions shouldn't be so limiting to the point where people with food allergies can't eat)

You should not lose any amount of your disability just because you make a little income (if you can't make enough to live off of or hold down a full time job due to your disability, you should qualify)

Marriage should have zero impact on your disability.

You should be allowed to own a home (why the fuck can't you own a home? That's dumb shit.)

It should cover any changes that you need to make to your home to make it accessible.

If you rent a place and you suddenly get a short term disability (like cancer). Your apartment should be covered until you recover.

If you rent a place and you suddenly get hit with a long term disability (like long covid or certain types of cancer) and you have to be moved (like if you're renting a condo for $1million a month. It's a bit of an exaggeration but it gets the point across for its reasonable to not expect the government to cover that). Then moving costs should be covered.

Before the capitalists (derogatory) come in my comments "You're just mad because you're too dumb to work so you want free shit." (Because they always do when I post a commie take).

I am disabled, and I have a full time job that pays me quite well (and is very accommodating to my disability). I just don't think people whose disability are more limiting than mine should suffer. Especially because every single disabled person knows that stress exacerbates symptoms.

Like the stress of being forced to live off what is the equivalent $2/hr for full time work, being forced to find a living space that covers that, and trying to find food you're allowed to eat on supplemented income with dietary restrictions (because most disabled people have to eat what most people consider "unhealthy" to manage our disability).

Before capitalists (derogatory) say "Your disability doesn't make you eat unhealthy food". You just want an excuse to eat junk food. People with cystic fibrosis often require calorie counts similar to Olympic athletes because they can't digest food right. People with POTS often require ridiculous sodium intakes to help manage the symptoms of low blood pressure. And people with migraines often need high carb "junk foods" to help manage the low blood flow that comes with a migraine flare-up.

The disabled body is fucking WEIRD and what's healthy to most people isn't necessarily healthy to us, and we've found our ridiculous ways of eating through trial and error to find out what best helps us function. If you don't live in our body, you can't tell us what's good for us.

-fae

[genericpuff]

And so the titan finally falls.

Its corpse will be hung on display for the public's gawking until August 29th, after which it will be sent into the lockup known as Daily Pass, where completed series go to die.

Okay, all jokes aside though, this day was always coming so if you're unfamiliar with Daily Pass, here's the gist of how it works:

Any Originals series completed on Webtoons is eligible to go into their Daily Pass library. Any income made from this system is, theoretically, meant to go to the creator, but I say theoretically because we don't know what the split is between creators and WT's, and if there's any sort of Minimum Revenue Threshold shenanigans like with FastPass that would prevent a creator from receiving their share. That said, there are creators who have confirmed that Daily Pass is meant to help creators profit off their works after they're completed, so we at least know that.

As for how Daily Pass works:

Once behind Daily Pass, the majority of episodes (save for the first several episodes to give people enough content to get hooked on) are re-locked and only available under any of the three following conditions:

a.) Once per day you get one Daily Pass ticket per Daily Pass series to unlock any locked episode from that respective series. Meaning if you spend a Daily Pass ticket on Lore Olympus, you don't get another ticket to use for Lore Olympus for the day, but you'll still have a ticket to use for any other series you haven't unlocked yet that day. Ticket unlocks remain unlocked for 14 days, after which the episode will be locked again;

b.) If you have already spent your one Daily Pass ticket on a series you're reading but you REALLY want to read more episodes and don't want to wait until tomorrow, you will have the option to either pay for episodes with coins (which, unlike the Daily Pass ticket, is a permanent unlock) or use Ad Pass on eligible episodes (this is a temporary unlock like the Daily Pass ticket, but is only applied for THREE DAYS unlike the 14 you get from the Daily Pass ticket);

c.) Any episodes you FastPassed from a series original run are permanently unlocked, so if you were someone who paid for episode unlocks of LO every week, then congrats! None of those previous qualifications apply to you and you can re-read the series to your heart's content! You win at Daily Pass!

Now if you got through all that and are now thinking, "why is this so confusing???" don't worry, you're not alone! Readers fucking hate this system! I can't wrap my head around how it's in any way profitable for the creators when the people who are willing to pay for it ALREADY FUCKING PAID AND DON'T HAVE TO PAY AGAIN and the people who AREN'T willing to pay for it probably didn't see it as worth paying for the first time around when the comic was still new and updating - so why in the world would they pay for it NOW when they could just use Daily Pass tickets once per day when they were already willing to wait each WEEK for free unlocks?

Granted, the coin cost on Daily Pass series are usually lowered to accommodate the fact that they're completed, but the reality is that many Webtoon readers are already pretty reserved when it comes to spending coins on the app. This is largely due to WT's demographic being predominantly made up of teenagers and children, and while that can make for great viewing metrics, it's not so great in turning around a profit, because kids and teens don't typically have disposable income to spend on webcomics, let alone disposable income that has to be paid through an app store which typically requires credit cards/Paypal/etc.

The bitter irony is that the audience that has the most time to burn on the app also have the least amount of money to go around. So oftentimes - at least from what I've observed after using the app for years - readers will often be VERY picky with what they put their coins towards. Which begs the question again but in a different light - why in the world would someone choose to spend coins from their limited allowance on the app on a completed series that was once available to read for free and technically still can be read for free through ads and Daily Pass tickets?

I realize I'm digressing quite a bit, but all of what I'm going off about is already being reflected in the reactions I've seen from fans of LO who aren't excited to see it go behind Daily Pass (at least, the part of the audience that's been informed, god knows there will be a huge chunk of people asking where tf LO went after it goes behind DP lmao). Daily Pass in and of itself is just a crappy, inconvenient way to re-read completed comics. Even if you opt to do the Daily Pass ticket system, that's still essentially turning the act of re-reading comics into a chore, as it restricts you from binge-reading episodes which you typically would want to do with a series that's already been completed. The concept of new episodes every day might sound appealing as it's more frequent than the original once-a-week schedule, but in practice, it can often have the opposite effect of ruining the reading experience by turning it into a daily task rather than a pass-time the reader can freely participate in at their own pace.

All that said, it will definitely be interesting to see how LO does once it goes behind that Daily Pass wall. I think at best it will probably see an influx of traffic in the coming weeks from the people who either want to re-read it one more time, or the people who never finished it in the first place and see this as motivation to do so (and yes, if you haven't finished LO yourself yet, absolutely do so if you want to see for yourself how it ends BEFORE it becomes an inconvenience LOL). After that though, it'll probably be entirely on the physical copies to drive future sales, but those are a long way away from being completed.

When all is said and done, August 29th will mark the true end of the LO era of Webtoons. If the series finale was a funeral, then this is the moment we set its ashes adrift in the sea and say our final goodbyes.

It certainly was a hell of a ride. The good, the bad, and the absolutely insufferable.

[itsmecreepinginyourheartbabe]

HOMELESS AND HUNGRY. PLEASE, I'M BEGGING, READ

i have done so many of these but all of it keeps losing its traction

i got a job today collecting trash and separating them but the salary is way below minimum wage (it's 6 dollars a day). It's better than nothing

i have my two brothers with me, they're only kids 10 and 13 years old. both get very sick often and one of them is severely asthmatic he requires a nebulizer to breathe. his nebulizer finally broke down the other day and he's having trouble breathing now which means we can't move that much for him. all our money was drained by a 3 weeks stay in the hospital

we're having trouble accumulating funds for hotel stays amidst an incoming super typhoon. I'm begging for my brothers, please help them stay safe

PLEASE PLEASE if you are able to spare us a dollar, please help us. if you can't, please boost this post as much as you can. this is all we have, please

[dailyadventureprompts]

Even as someone who lives and breathes d&d, I'm always a little surprised when one of the blogs/youtubers/podcasts I follow starts engaging with WotC products with genuine interest, or as if they were the be all, end all version of the game.

Maybe it's because I've been locked into the third party/homebrew space since the 3rd edition days but it's hard to look at the official releases as anything more than unambitious, uninspired dreck designed to keep quarterly profits up and maintain the company's copyright. In many ways the yearly WotC releases aren't that much different than the Disney live action remakes: the minimum viable product required to feed into the marketing machine so unwitting consumers will have something to spend their disposable income on.

In the same vein, it'd strike me as weird for someone to market themselves as a person who professionally critiqued/recommended movies and who ONLY talked about the latest Disney liveaction remakes as if they were the entirety of what movies could be ( or even what the company had produced in the past)

To me d&d as a game is inseparable from the gamechanging kickstarter darlings or the vast trove of homebrew on the unearthed arcana subreddit. It's not special when Wotc comes out with a handful of new subclasses and monsters every couple of years when the fans are creating just as much content every week and giving it away for free.

Maybe it's one of those "your experiences are not universal" sort of situation, but I can't imagine subsisting your love of the game off of WotC gruel and corporate hype when there's such a wild buffet of brilliance and creativity always within arms reach.

[rami-ajr91]

🚨A sea of ​​suffering🚨

What have you done, my child, to deserve this in life?

My name is Rami Al-Ajrami, and I am a devoted father from Gaza. At 35 years old, I am proud of my three beautiful children: Elaine, 7 years old, Kinda, 3 years old, and my precious son Nasser, 4 years old.

My child Nasser was born without a thyroid gland, and doctors discovered this late, which negatively affected his mental and physical development. Nasser suffered from illness and jaundice for a long time.

Over time, and after intensive and continuous follow-up with Nasser's private doctor, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, an icon of steadfastness and humanity at Kamal Adwan Hospital, before the war, my child was receiving treatment in private rehabilitation centers and his situation began to improve a lot, but the war came to ravage Nasser again and now he is in a very bad condition without medical care or even the minimum requirements of life, such as medicine, food, clean water, clothes, milk and diapers.

In addition, I had a beautiful house and a small shop selling electrical appliances that was a source of income for me and my family, but unfortunately my house was completely destroyed and my shop was completely destroyed and all the merchandise in it was burned. Nothing remained of it, and now I am without work or a source of income.

Hence, I ask you for your kindness and generosity to support our cause. This fundraising campaign aims to provide the necessary medical treatment and health care for Nasser, to secure milk and Pampers for my child, and to secure the life requirements of my family, because we are now without work and without a source of livelihood.💔💔💔🙏🙏🙏

Pictures of our house, shop, and Nasser's health reports are attached here.

Vetted by @gazavetters , my number verified on the list is ( #191 ) here.