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puppiedogs · 7 months ago

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i called the ssa office to ask something and in the pre-recorded message they say, like it’s not fucking Insane, “if you’re calling with regards to a disability claim, due to a staffing shortage, current processing times for disability claims are between 250 and 300 days, after which it will take three to four weeks for you to receive your decision by mail” as though that’s just something that happens whoopsie sorry about that like die actually. how do these people sleep at night

#*#the welfare system has so many fucking hoops people have to jump through #for No reason #if you actually believe the majority of people on welfare don’t ~need to be #frankly if someone’s willing to go through all this bullshit to get a $200 unemployment check a week #they deserve it. like they make this shit stupid hard #when i informed the medicaid dept i had been put on leave from work #they requested - no exaggeration - Eight separate pieces of documentation #four of them needed to be signed and dated by people who weren’t me #one i didn’t have access to bc it was sent to my work email #which my workplace restricted my access to #and if i succeeded i would have gotten at most 60% of my average weekly paycheck #all of that bullshit. to - Maybe - get a minuscule amount of money #like. this system Exclusively oppresses people who are Already struggling #when you’re going through smth as hard as potentially losing a job #and then in order to have any sense of security at All #you have to do several difficult stressful tasks #in order to make sure you can Survive #life for ppl on welfare is already garbage i hate that these vultures make it even Harder

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