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JanMichael

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14. Good. I said reducing costs can help.

Reply to Kaleva (Reply #11)

Sat Feb 13, 2021, 09:06 PM

Feb 2021

That said there is income and their is wealth/services. There are plenty of people that get SS or SSI and have a house they live in low cost (paid off over the years, inherited, relative, nonprofit). Or they have a Housing Choice Voucher (formerly Section 8) or live in a USDA project based apartment. Or they live in a 'Key" unit. Or they get LIHEAP annually. Etcetera.

So one can be a few bucks over the poverty line:

https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines

And be "fine".

I guess geography, health, debt and "needs", are all relative when it comes to being "fine".

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