• Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Huh, thought I posted this already, but I guess I forgot to.

    I’ve been on food stamps before. Basically, I said that my parents ranted and complained about “other people” scamming the system and not deserving the welfare, but I did. They also were shocked at how little I actually got each month, because they assumed you were supposed to get a lot more money.

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      8 months ago

      They also were shocked at how little I actually got each month, because they assumed you were supposed to get a lot more money.

      You get something like $300 a month maximum, and that is if you are making $0 anywhere else. As soon as you get any type of income it plummets to $50, which is hardly even worth the hoops they make you jump through.

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      8 months ago

      That’s the weird thing about conservatives. For all their complaining about how the government doesn’t work, they seem to vastly overestimate how much the government does and its competence.

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      8 months ago

      I applied for food stamps when i was in college. I was financially independent (kicked out at 17), was working two part jobs to make ends meet, and met the requirements. When my dad found out about the food stamps he lost his mind and tried to sell me on this whole “ask family” bullshit when he was the one that cut me off and always had strings attached to his help. So yeah i took the food stamps. It sure hurt his pride that someone in our family would be on food stamps. But fuck pride, i needed to eat.