DUer has nowhere to turn for help (SEX OFFENDER)

[daredtowork]

33. SSDI is a scandal and SSI is even more of one

If you look at it from a point of view that you are proving you CAN'T WORK, then the fact it takes YEARS to process these applications (in my case it has been over THREE YEARS, and I have had ups and downs to my situation that would affect my qualification over the course of that time), this situation is a nightmare. It is WORSE THAN THE VA.

People who don't have YEARS OF SAVINGS or a WORKING SPOUSE TO RELY ON must fall back on welfare - which as you can see above is a couple of hundred bucks a month. WELFARE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR RENT, MUCH LESS UTILITIES AND BASIC NECESSITIES. Ever since Clinton's "Reform of Welfare As We Know it" in the 1980s, the only working welfare program is food stamps - that actually pays enough for a modicum of food. Everything else is ABSURDITY!!!!

While you are helping the poor guy above think of every other person in the US in this situation and how crazy-making it is.

Now think how our leading Democratic candidate, the one who will probably get the Democratic nomination - Hillary Clinton - has not stepped up to undo what her husband did to create this situation! Do you think people who are already disabled and sick and applying for SSI/SSDI should be driven into homelessness by this ludicrous crushingly impossibly low welfare system?

If you look at Hillary's welfare policy page, you can see so far she has no plans to address it. She is still dogwhistling on welfare queens by stressing work and childcare while working. No, just no. She needs to get on putting some sort of safety net back in place for people like Bob above.

Bob is not the only one. He is just one of the lucky ones who have found kind friends who will help him.

Ps. I'm surprised the State would let him keep the GoFundMe money on top of the $240/month. Here they would take it away and modify food stamps as well.