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We Are Discontinuing Your Benefit...PoorCraft III
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Posted by: laborat
(Things you can think about while I go to Mexico then Canada to get my drugs)
I got a letter yesterday from Social Security. I never get any mail from them unless its bad news. In fact no letter from a government agency have I received that was ever good news. (bad grammar is deliberate, I feel like the 3rd worlders) This Letter from Social Security was about my SSI that I get for being a part of a government recognized minority group, the disabled poor.
Dear ________, according to our records and due to your stupidity in not knowing how to manipulate the system to your advantage, we find that you owe Social Security $2044. This is because we have found that for four months, we have been giving you money while you already have money. While we appreciate your truthfulness and candor about your circumstances, rules are rules and have to be followed or the system and indeed, the Free World would fall.
Well, I certainly don't want the Free World to fall on account of me. So I should go back a bit and sort it out for anyone reading. In December, My mother's estate was settled and my sister and I divided the proceeds after all claims against the estate were settled. It wasn't much. Enough to think, I had some money, and for my Banker to actually know who I was in the line to the teller's window.
Now anyone who has played the social services game, (PoorCraft III) knows that anyone who goes down that road, has to play by a series of often vague rules that change without notice and are enforced with prejudice. To be poor, you have to be poor. Not only that you have to remain poor and not try to become middle class or rich. There are programs like workfare and stuff but they are for the college kids of government officials and local politicos. The truly poor get to earn in my case 60 dollars a month on top of my 545 dollar dole.
Now some people (usually republicans) might think that it is bad to take money for the government. (actually now that I think about it, republicans probably take more money from the government than the poor). People like me get a bad name and we are called shirkers or lazy or dolers. (Republicans who take money from the government are called contractors, weapons dealers, and government officials.)
I don't really care. I worked and paid in money for a good number of years before I couldn't work anymore and hell, I doubt if there will be a retirement for me or anyone else by the time its time to retire.
So anyway back to my letter and my circumstance. I checked in with Social Security and said, hey, I got some money from my moms estate what should I do? they said, well you can only have 2000 dollars, so we will have to cut off your check until you spend all your money. (something called spenddown.) So I said okay, and went off to spend all my money. I spend all my money and then the letter arrives yesterday saying I owe them (Social Security) money. I think it is a shame they didn't tell me I would have to pay them money when I had money, but instead waited until I was Poor again to tell me. They did say I had the right to appeal the ruling, hire a lawyer, and go to some sort of panel hearing. I might do that if I can find a lawyer I can afford.
My other options besides just paying the money are a payment plan, I could use credit cards deductions on a monthly basis, (credit cards? for the poor? cough cough) and I could also just have them deduct it from my Social Security retirement account (the lump sum you pay into off of your payroll check), my third option is to not pay them at all but my benefits would not resume. Since I need drugs just to stay alive its not much of an option.
I suppose what reallly steams me, and if there is a point to this, is that congress passed the inheritance tax bill that is going to eventually eliminate the tax on moneys from your parents estate. They did this because of the lobbying efforts of western cattle farmers whose childrens lives were being disrupted having to pay taxes on 1000's and 1000's of inherited government land leases. I like the idea of not being disrupted in what you do when your parents die and leave you something. I don't like the idea that if you are POOR and suddenly get some money that your whole social services net is suddenly shorn from you and you have to scuffle just to survive. This is in addition to having to go to the back of the line when you are poor again and stand there, do all the paperwork again, and hopefully get back on.
I can certainly see why many poor people have devised schemes to have money and still get money. (PoorCraft III) I suppose if I had thought it through, I could have come up with something, but I was raised to tell the truth to government agencys. Like many of the other things my parents and the public school system taught me, it was bad advice.
Posted by: Kdr Kane
Many Russians feel the same way you do. 
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