i felt that way back when i was 18 and living on my own with a minimum wage job and barely affording the 1 bedroom apartment i was living in. my friend’s dad kept telling me to sign up for food stamps and I just bristled at the thought.
i ended up getting them after i went to a drug rehab and they signed me up so they could use that as payment while i was there.
After I got out I suddenly had the ability to actually get food and eat things without worrying about trying to pay rent AND eat. I felt like such an idiot for having whatever bullshit ‘pride’ about barely surviving or whatever the hell that was.
You can pay for rehab with food stamps?
that rehab worked that way. It was really the only way they could get any money for anything. As soon as you entered they enrolled you in food stamps and then they collected it on your behalf until you left.
Was the food then divided between the residents?
I don’t know that they actually got the food. I think they were able to cash it out through some deal with the state.
This looks like that story about some dude and a stray cat.
My grandparents are this way. My dad might be, but thankfully Mom is not, and she helped me get on Medicaid and we’re working on getting disability benefits. I just remember my grandparents saying one time something about how they’re on Medicare, but thank goodness none of us were on Medicaid.
Older generations were brought up with the idea that it’s shameful to receive help, but we need to do away with that idea, especially as wealth gets more and more concentrated in the hands of a few and there’s less for the rest of us.
Too communism for them?
Probably just too ashamed.
