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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What? How is this welfare abuse OP? It sounds like your cousin is not a dependent, they have minor children, and they have very limited income. What is it that you want? For them to be homeless, too?

You suck, OP. [/quote]

DP. You need to explain your housing situation when you apply for welfare. Free rent (in a $2m house or not) is a form of income/benefits.[/quote]

No. Free housing means you have $0 housing expense. It is not treated as income.
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Income shmincom. It is a benefit. Don't split hairs. If you are living in a house free of charge then it should be taken into consideration for calculating what your overall NEEDS are. There is a difference between someone with a place to live versus those who have NOTHING and nowhere to go. [/quote]

Not correct. The person who lives on the street pays $0 rent. The person who lives with her parents pays $0 rent. There's no difference.

Medicaid and SNAP see them as having the same financial needs for food and medical care.

-former state benefits worker[/quote]

So state benefits workers don’t count the household income, i.e. what the parents are making, in the eligibility calculations?[/quote]

In OP's example, the cousin's income is counted. Not her parents' income.[/quote]

Ok, I’m one of the biggest fans of Social Security and SSDI you’ll find on this board. But it does seem to me that household, not personal, income should be the basis of the determination. That’s what SSDI does, and they also count in-kind things like living rent-free. In fact that can be disqualifying.[/quote]

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