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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If Franny's mom was trying to work while Franny was at home having bipolar episodes and getting pregnant....that would have been very hard on all concerned.  The grandma may have felt completely overwhelmed and when the work injury happened...she decided to heck with even trying to work.

It is always easier from the outside looking in.  We don't have to live it.[/quote]

Nice try.  But no.  Not from a disabiity point of view.  [/quote]

These folks seem to have a lot of different issues.  I'm sure that life is a struggle for them in more ways than one. The disappearing dads of Franny and the children aren't mentioned too much in the article.  There is a lot going on there....[/quote]

I'm sure there is, by as an actual disabled person myself, who is well versed in what disability benefits are for, they are not to pay for rent or trips to McDonald's or puppy food.  There are SNAP benefits, low income housing benefits, and ther social services (aka welfare) programs for the lower income and distressed populations. But disability benefits are not a substitute for those, unless you are truly physically unable to work.  Not that you don't want to work the kind of job you could work or that you chose to live in a sparsely populated place with no jobs.  That is where unemployment kicks in.  Not disability.  They are not equal.  They are Not interchangeable.  [/quote]

Somehow Franny and her mom have been receiving disability benefits.  I would imagine that they both have had a physician state that they are physically unable to work.  I don't know if they receive other government benefits as well.  Not sure what the rules are for that.

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