welfare doesn't really work?

Question

i'm a low income mom who is on as little public assistance as possible. i don't even want to be on this much, but that's neither here nor there. last year i was accepted into the prenursing/certified nurses assistant program at the local tech college. i was trying to get actual training...o my goodness, to get a real job...so that i would not have to spend the rest of my children's childhood on public assistance! because of my son's therapy (he has autism and is in a lot of it) i would have only been able to work part time, which would not have covered daycare for my kids at all, so i called the local dss office to see about abc vouchers, which you can use to help pay for daycare..and i found out that since i was already recieving child support, i didn't qualify, and I couldn't get more cuz i was already over the max! the welfare system sucks because it is designed to keep people in it, even those who want to get out. has anybody else heard of this or had this happen to them?

Answer 1

I know a couple people this has happened to. They love to give you money to live on, but if you try to get a job or go to school forget it. I know someone who's trying to get off welfare and had a really good job and is indanger of losing it because she can't find and afford child care for her kids. It happens all the time. I'm working (because of school) with a low income community right now and our teachers told us two stories of people who ended up moving out and becoming very poor with no health insurance because they got jobs.

Answer 2

Ultimately it must be the consumers responsibility due the mechanics of supply and demand. If the consumer demanded higher welfare and boycotted meat that was not reared to this standard then it would no longer be produced. However, it's very easy to make the right decision re: ethically sourced meat when you have a small holding in Dorset and your own TV series. I would never darken a supermarket's doors again I've I lived like you Hugh, why would I need to? However, when you live on a council estate in one of the most deprived areas of the country and you're the only one working in your household as your partners lost his job due to the recession, it's a bit more difficult to choose the £8 free range chicken from the butchers over the £3 one from the supermarket. I do try to take the high road and go to my butcher and whatever I buy I never throw any of it away, it's all used in stews and soups and frozen if I can't think what to do with it (even the bones for stock) but when I've got £30 to live on a week and a winter gas bill coming up it's not so cut and dried as "Is animal welfare my responsibility' and unfortunately a £3 chicken will feed us for 3-4 days the same as an £8 one will.

Answer 3

I agree the welfare system is messed up. I was declared disabled for a while and I don't have kids. I wanted to get a place to live and a job, try getting them to help you find a place to live without a child! Once I finally found a place to stay for a while I found a job almost instantly, but I'm still waiting to get health insurance to cover my disability, even though I'm NOT accepting the Social Security I'm entitled to.

Answer 4

Welfare doesn't work at all. It allows the one who has it to do nothing to get it. Now, I realize that it is essential in cases where the person can't work due to health or disability issues but for those who can it needs to be given for a certain amount of time only along with training for a job etc and then discontinued.

Answer 5

You are right it is designed to keep people down. States get bonuses for having a certain amount of people in the system, so, they benefit the more people in thier system. They are to busy taking care of welfare lifers than people truly trying. Don't worry though you will make it, you obviously have a good head on your shoulders.

Answer 6

If your son is autistic, why aren't you getting services through the department of mental health in your area?

There should also be some type of regional center that will pay for respite care, so that you can get out of the house, work and do what you need to do.

There are TONS of resources for parents with children who have disabilities. Have you joined parent2parent? Its an organization that supports parents of specials needs children.

Go to your county website and look for resources because they are there.

Good luck.

Answer 7

Yes, it is a big problem in any welfare system. The problem is separating the people like you who desperately want to work, from those who just want to take everything they can get their hands on.

It may be worthwhile to keep on trying though. The system is so complicated that there may be other benefits you could claim instead.

Answer 8

My husband and I got State aide for dr.s visits when wer ewere pregnant with our first baby. When we tried to get some help with our second we made $50 a month too much! We even had another insurance company and the state would only pick up the difference! they punish the "working poor". those of us that have to work our lives away to make ends meet.

Answer 9

Welfare is only for those who can't work, & have no brains to figure out hwo to work, & only know how to open their legs to get more welfare...It was supposed to help people of low income with problems, now it is an enabler. I do not know what to do to fix it, as I an not an economist. I feel bad for your situation, it can't be easy. I wish you the best of luck.

Answer 10

I know it doesn't work. u do everything u can to get off it but as soon as u start to try they boot u off it. they don't want u on it but they don't do all they can to help u to do so. there is so much more they can do for u, but they wont. they want u to get a good decent paying job and to do that u have to finish school, but they wont help if u are over twenty one years old. what sense that make they should be glad that you are trying to get off assistance.