Food stamps
I was told that I am now eligible for what used to be called food stamps being I am over the age of 60 and totally disabled.
So, I went through the whole process to get them and wow, a whole $23 a month I will get if I fill out a shitload of paperwork and send it back.
What a fucking insult.
This is the only thing I've ever been able to receive after being totally disabled since 1995.
I won't bother to fill-out all of their nosy paperwork to get the $23.00 a month.
Yes, that is how insulted I am.
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I have a hole in my vision from optical neuritis.
Filling out forms is extremely difficult for me to do.
I'm not going to bother.
It isn't worth my time and energy and I just know it will be wrong.
I don't get a thing but a $102 disability pension from my former job these days as I was switched from SSDI to SSA last year due to my age.
Some out there seem to think that those with disabilities get all sort of free things.
Well, I don't, that is obvious.
To hell with this B.S. system that panders to the rich! again!
I think we may both be in the exact same spot! 
I am sure that $23/month makes America the envy of the world.
I mean ... most all US politicians take the time to repeat these mantras every chance they get. So it must be true.
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Vey sorry for your troubles.
All the best wishes for you.
He brought in about $500 a month.
He's gone now and I cannot collect a thing as a disabled widow.
I thought I would be able to collect something as I was married to him for 36 years.
He died indigent with $5.00 in a savings account and that is it.
So, he left me behind with nothing to show for all of the years we were together.
The paperwork they send me is wrong anyway as I went through a load of money last year paying for his care and other things, including $1300+ in taxes!
In the end, it was $500/day for hospice care at a facility in the nearby town.
I worked a full-time job from the age of 19 with a salary of $2.88/hr.
I was dumped after my diagnosis of MS two weeks after I got it which led to ending up blind and in a wheelchair.
I had no choice but to STOP which is what I had to do, STOP.
Going blind is what caused me to throw in the towel as I felt I had no choice as its pretty difficult to work as an office assistant when you cannot see properly.
I am so depressed about this.
Once again I'd gotten my hopes up for nothing.
$23 will barely cover the cost of driving into town and back to do some shopping at the good old Grocery Outlet!
Furious and insulted.
I wasted my time with these idiots.
They can shove their $23 up their arsewholes! 
The whole system is a scam. It's held back by republicans and their hateful anti-life bullshit. They hate the poor. I'm sorry you are only getting $23.00.
My family of four is supposed to get by on $230ish. That includes two kids - a preteen and a teen. They are growing and, therefore, eating machines. It's impossible. And the food pantries around here can't keep up.
Fucking disgusting!
Can't win for shit no matter what!
Oh well, I should have known better!
Dummy me! 
I'd have gone broke had he not died when he did.
He needed 24/7 care and I was trying to get him out of the country.
I would have sold everything to do it. That is how far I was willing to go for him.
It still angers me the way WE were treated.
I'll never forget it!
It was very very sad. 
