Fairly stressed. Tend to shift from pretty chill all the way to absolute despair. I have to make phone calls to government people and I hate dealing with government programs. I’m always so scared that the one time I need to call they’ll change my whole shit. The whole war thing isn’t helping either.
Sent in updated financial information to the EBT program and they reduced my monthly allowance from ~$250 to a whopping $23. The math makes absolutely zero sense as I’m still ~$500+ away from meeting the monthly income cutoff point where I wouldn’t get benefits at all. $23?? I can buy a whole meal once a month, hurray!
The alternative would be not to report my income shift. Then I would owe them thousands of dollars when tax season comes. Love this country. Not to distract from your struggles comrade, just dittoing the hatred for talking to govt agencies for fear of them changing shit for the worse.
Thank you for sharing with me, sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with these problems so I’m glad you shared.
Government agencies are so scary, the program I am on is different than yours but apparently because I’m going to university my whole benefits system will change which worries me. I’ll either get cut off fully or be put on a student benefit.
We already get so little from them so any excuse they can find on lowering that amount or straight cutting us off is what they strive to do. I’m sorry they screwed you over so badly, but you’re not alone comrade. So many others are unfortunately going through similar, people in my support group have mentioned the same.
The only good thing is that this does fan the flames for me to get work done and dismantle this system.
College was hell financially. Federal zero interest loans, scholarships out the ass from high GPA, eating nothing but ramen and Taco Bell, and I still wound up broke and up $5k in debt for a year of college I dropped out of. Credit score is shit, didn’t pay a dime off. Now the state is promising to negate it, but that bill is looking more and more dead in the water as time goes on. Sent the agency my info, but they state that it won’t be over and done with til 2024, giving the state plenty of time to shut it down. Just incredible.
I’m really lucky as I wont have to worry about feeding myself since I live together with my grandmother, so I’ll always have something good to eat. Being in debt is going to suck but hopefully with the summer job I’m looking into I’ll be able to pay it off fairly quickly. Really had to contemplate what the hell my plan was going to be since I can’t keep winging it anymore. Not when we both know fairly well how the government aid programs can fuck you anytime they want.
sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with these problems so I’m glad you shared.
Oh man you never are. We all struggle in this system. Mentally, financially, physically. But there is such a taboo on being honest with your problems and throwing them on the table for the rest to see. Mainly, I think, because if we all did, a revolution would start in every country.
We are all treated too harshly and we are made to feel ashamed about it too. Throw your shit out there for people to listen. The more people that do this, the more we all get mad and maybe do something about it.
That’s honestly exactly what I’m doing. I want to make our cause a reality and help to uplift others as I have the chance to. I know from personal experience how fucked the system is and with a “higher” education (a fancy paper), people who are unaware might finally listen.
This war has me both pessimistic and hopeful; watching normal people fall hard for fascist propaganda has me terrified but I’m comforted by the fact that there’s not only you all but many other comrades pushing back. It just sucks I don’t have people IRL to talk about this with (yet), living in a NATO country is worrisome. But I’m excited for when school starts so I can become a better comrade and maybe gain some actual backbone.
Fairly stressed. Tend to shift from pretty chill all the way to absolute despair. I have to make phone calls to government people and I hate dealing with government programs. I’m always so scared that the one time I need to call they’ll change my whole shit. The whole war thing isn’t helping either.
Sent in updated financial information to the EBT program and they reduced my monthly allowance from ~$250 to a whopping $23. The math makes absolutely zero sense as I’m still ~$500+ away from meeting the monthly income cutoff point where I wouldn’t get benefits at all. $23?? I can buy a whole meal once a month, hurray!
The alternative would be not to report my income shift. Then I would owe them thousands of dollars when tax season comes. Love this country. Not to distract from your struggles comrade, just dittoing the hatred for talking to govt agencies for fear of them changing shit for the worse.
Thank you for sharing with me, sometimes it feels like I’m the only one with these problems so I’m glad you shared.
Government agencies are so scary, the program I am on is different than yours but apparently because I’m going to university my whole benefits system will change which worries me. I’ll either get cut off fully or be put on a student benefit.
We already get so little from them so any excuse they can find on lowering that amount or straight cutting us off is what they strive to do. I’m sorry they screwed you over so badly, but you’re not alone comrade. So many others are unfortunately going through similar, people in my support group have mentioned the same.
The only good thing is that this does fan the flames for me to get work done and dismantle this system.
College was hell financially. Federal zero interest loans, scholarships out the ass from high GPA, eating nothing but ramen and Taco Bell, and I still wound up broke and up $5k in debt for a year of college I dropped out of. Credit score is shit, didn’t pay a dime off. Now the state is promising to negate it, but that bill is looking more and more dead in the water as time goes on. Sent the agency my info, but they state that it won’t be over and done with til 2024, giving the state plenty of time to shut it down. Just incredible.
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I’m really lucky as I wont have to worry about feeding myself since I live together with my grandmother, so I’ll always have something good to eat. Being in debt is going to suck but hopefully with the summer job I’m looking into I’ll be able to pay it off fairly quickly. Really had to contemplate what the hell my plan was going to be since I can’t keep winging it anymore. Not when we both know fairly well how the government aid programs can fuck you anytime they want.
Oh man you never are. We all struggle in this system. Mentally, financially, physically. But there is such a taboo on being honest with your problems and throwing them on the table for the rest to see. Mainly, I think, because if we all did, a revolution would start in every country.
We are all treated too harshly and we are made to feel ashamed about it too. Throw your shit out there for people to listen. The more people that do this, the more we all get mad and maybe do something about it.
That’s honestly exactly what I’m doing. I want to make our cause a reality and help to uplift others as I have the chance to. I know from personal experience how fucked the system is and with a “higher” education (a fancy paper), people who are unaware might finally listen.
This war has me both pessimistic and hopeful; watching normal people fall hard for fascist propaganda has me terrified but I’m comforted by the fact that there’s not only you all but many other comrades pushing back. It just sucks I don’t have people IRL to talk about this with (yet), living in a NATO country is worrisome. But I’m excited for when school starts so I can become a better comrade and maybe gain some actual backbone.
January can’t come soon enough.