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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think you owe her the assistance of navigating bureaucracy. I would start now. [/quote]

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What if you know nothing about navigating bureaucracy?  [/quote]

It's not that hard. Honestly. 
I posted before about working in this area. Medicaid SSI are made to be user friendly due to the population they overwhelmingly serve. Think about the millions of people who have little to no education who benefit from these services.
OP can definitely do it.[/quote]

I'm sure that it's "not that hard".  But if you don't work in that industry or have never used services like that before yourself it is foreign territory.  [/quote]

How do you think millions of high school drop outs who are illiterate manage to get food stamps and free housing? I'm not trying to be derogatory, but the system is set up to serve people that actually cannot take care of themselves in the most basic of ways: food, clothing and shelter. It is NOT like trying to figure out a mortgage. It is literally (and I hate to use that word) made for people with less than a 3rd grade reading level. [/quote]

Have you ever applied for services?  It is not easy.  Its actually worse than applying for a mortgage as the workers often sit on things and it takes forever to get approved.  I handed my husband the long term medicaid paperwork after I had it....he gave it back after an hour and could not figure out many things.  I did it in about 20-30 minutes but that's because I understand the system.  It took me months of back and forth to get the long term medicaid.  I go back and forth monthly with the workers on what is covered, finances with the nursing home and it takes lots of follow up calls to the worker and supervisor to get anything done (there is one good worker out of three we've had).  You have to submit paperwork and then they claim they did not get it or it is the wrong stuff.  I usually sent it fax, regular and certified mail and sometimes dropped it off too... It was a full time job trying to get an id, social security and medicare transferred, finding new doctors and appointments, food stamps, medicaid, long term medicaid, finding a nursing home, buying her everything she needed that was stolen from her... not to mention 24/7 care.  I had to bring in another relative to care for my kids for a month to just get things settled.  Now I spend a lot of time managing the nursing home, doctors, finances and benefits.  [/quote]

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