• Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I have SSI it pays peanuts, if I didn’t have a job ontop of it, I’d have nothing.

    The rules are overly strict and an absolute poverty trap. I cannot legally have 2000 dollars to my name and anything I earn through ANY means must be reported meaning I CAN’T have a side hustle.

    I need to stay on the program because my health insurance is tied to it, if I ever lost it I would be physically and mentally near death within a month.

    I’m one of the people they’re talking about when they mention Welfare Queens