Have you ever had to live off of welfare? Was it an easy life?

Question

I see all of the time about how the good tax paying people here don't like it that some people are getting help. I don't think all people choose to be poor and I was wondering if there are any people who would be willing to share their story of how the overcame!

Answer 1

Yes,unfortunately I did have to live off of welfare for 2&1/2 years and I would not wish that life style on my anyone! People who have never had to live like this should not answer this question! They only think they have the answers! I know what it is like! We didn't have enough food, our clothes although clean came from thrift stores, I even had to buy used shoes that someone else wore out. My kids were beaten up by the other kids because they were poor and the school gave the welfare kids different color lunch tickets. We had no other choice but to live in the public housing,because that was all that we could afford & that is a scary place to live. I couldn't even let my kids play outside because they got beat up there for being white.I was a tax payer before I had to go on welfare and I was a tax payer again after welfare. Boy, this bring's back so many horriable and sad memories! I am sorry to the "Good Tax Paying People" who feel they were paying my and my two sons way. Please believe me I suffered but my children should not have had to. All of the factories left my town. There were no good jobs. I went back to school and I recieved a degree in counseling.I became a tax payer, again!

Answer 2

Well, I came in the country to work, and I taught so that that going to take me of the poverty, since I'm a American citizen, I depended first in the welfare, they gave enough money for food, and About 200 for my kids, they helped me sometimes with my bill, but when I came back looking for more help they said that they already helped me, they didn't gave me any help for the rent they didn't had fond, they didn't helped me to found a work, so I was supposed to live with the 200 and the food but that wasn't enough I need a place to live and money to pay my bill. So, I found a agenies that help the farm workers, they gave about 600 a month for take ESL, but I have to pay 300 in rent and about 300 in bill, they took me of the welfare checks because my income exceed the minimum wages and reduced my F'S, my live became too difficult sometimes and dint have money for the bill, or for the food because their other necessities that the welfare doesn't cover like clothes, shoes, laundry and other and so I went to a Goodwill agencies and they put me in a waiting list and never call me, So I get this job, now I receive about 200 in F'S nothing else and my income are too high for the medicare. I'm still in the poverty because my checks is for pay taxes and bills. They take 300 of taxes in my checks so For Who I'm working for?

Answer 3

Not really cause you still cannot make ends meet. If you have been used to a comfortable lifestyle then you may have a few problems. but for the most part, I think if it weren't for welfare some people would not make it.

Answer 4

aside from the outright abuse of the system, its a vicious cycle that perpetuates the welfare life. I guess you could call it easy, mind numbingly ambition destroying easy. Of course there are some stories of people getting off of it, most involve education and being forced to leave the dole roll.