I was
looking some of it up last night. The state has their own guidelines but those
are regulated by the federal gvt.
That's what I'm thinking.....it's
the only time I've seen you can get away with more income or
assets....
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:07
PM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Man Kept Tiger In
Public Housing
It
could be though where they have more kids. Probably a more plausible
reason.
For the most part they are,
and you just described them here to a t. Ditto for
Louisiana...
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:53
PM
Subject: RE: [Sndbox] Man Kept
Tiger In Public Housing
Well I know when Neil and I first got married and moved out on
our own, he was only working at Hardee's and making probably $13,000 a
year. Our rent per month was $300 along with electric and phone. With
all that we were bringing in less per month than what was going back
out. We also had a POS escort that was falling apart. As much as I didnt
want to do it I went and got food stamps. We were getting quite a bit
but I still used them carefully and made them last the whole month.
About a month before Neil switched jobs (which would have ruined us on
them anyway) we had to buy a new car b/c our old one died. They totally
cut off all of them b/c they said if we could afford a new car (not that
we could, just had to have it and got the cheapest, most reliable we
could find) then we could afford to buy food. Now as I said, it wasnt
that big a deal b/c right after that he got a new job which I was just
waiting for him to get so we could go off them anyway. But with 2 kids,
you had to be making less than $25,000 a year and your car could be
worth no more than $4000 and your monthly bills such as
rent/electric/phone had to total over half your monthly income.
But I was under the impression that programs such as the food
stamp program were federal guidelines, not state
guidelines.
In a message dated 10/6/2003 1:28:51 PM Eastern
Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That pisses
me off to no end right there. I know for a fact that if you try to
apply for food stamps, you are turned down if your car is worth more
than $1000. My aunt got turned down for them b/c she had to buy a
new car. Even then it wasnt a brand new car, but her old one was no
longer able to be repaired and she got a used car that had problems
on its own, but it was a newer car and still had a higher value on
it and she was turned down. She is working two jobs and going to
college and has 2 kids to take care of. She has a deadbeat exhusband
that was able to get out of paying any kind of alimony or child
support due to mental illness causing him to be disable and unable
to work. She does get a social security check for her kids in the
amount of $75 a month, which doesnt even pay her electric bill. How
fair is it that someone who is trying but just needs a little
extra help cant get any help simply b/c she needed a reliable car to
get her too and from work. And for the record her car is a 96
cavalier that she bought in 99.
i don't know how it works where you are from, but
here we still got our food stamps (card) with no changes and we HAD to
but a 2000 auto for about $16kthe only killing us on food stamps is
that jackie had to get a job to pay for our rent.
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