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[quote=Anonymous]I hated the 50 page form that had to be filled out EVERY MONTH for food stamps and MA. The hilarious parts were where the form asked how much you expected to work the next month or if you expected any change in your medical expenses. "I plan to have 4 days of stomach flu and will miss work the second week of next month and for my son to have an ear infection the week after that" was what I often imagined writing. This was before people could do this stuff online and they didn't even have a drop box, you had to get there before the office closed. When I had recertification meetings, my brain would go completely numb--you'd wait a long time, then you'd sit brain dead while the worker entered the info into the computer and had questions and stuff. They would have DMV records of every car you'd ever owned that died and became salvage, it was like a journey into my automotive history of used cars. Workers vary--there are people who feel (and will say out loud) that they represent the TAXPAYERS of the county, and there are others who have lived the life themselves and have great suggestions.

For awhile they had this pilot program going, the idea being to screen applicants for possible service needs like addiction or mental health services. But it was sneaky. They had some kind of state mental health worker who also interviewed you but she didn't really say what her role was--I happened to find out about this project several years after the fact.

The child care subsidy had two tiers, 30% and 70%, for awhile. I made $7 a month too much for the 70% tier. The tough part was weekend work--I was a graduate TA but worked as a CNA every other weekend--and juggling who could watch my kid on the weekends.

One thing that was off was they made it sound like SNAP benefits are paid weekly (when she gets $67.50 for the week)--which is not the case but I think was done to bring home what it would break down to. The first few times I used food stamps I felt uncomfortable but wasn't long before I was ok with it. I lived in a neighborhood where I lot of people also had food stamps. I've been in line when someone was arguing with the cashier over whether a particular item was permitted with the food stamps (I think it was a cold deli item? and at least at the time hot deli items weren't allowed?).

Section 8 is a lot like the TBRA program they portray. I have a friend with mental illness and alcohol issues, on SSDI, who had a section 8 voucher, but she periodically had to get new apartments after a major psych episode and long term hospital stay (yes, state hospitals still exist and some people are there for months on end). The trick is, landlords require income 3x the rent and the section 8 rate is that you pay 30% of your countable income--so really you DO have income 3x the rent you are responsible for, but this is not how property managers figure it. So my friend could never get into places that met the rental amount criteria (and advertised themselves as section 8 eligible) and which also happened to have good security and tenant background checks because they wanted income 3x the actual rent, not the tenant's portion of rent. So she always ended up in places where the security entrance was always on the fritz, domestic violence situations next door, drug activity, and making friends with neighbors who did not affect her mental health in a good way. [/quote]

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