How can low to no-income families take advantage of all of the available benefits they're entitled to?
June 9, 2011 7:00 PM Subscribe
Reap the benefits of poverty! What can a small family do during an extended period of low or no income to qualify for as many "perks" as possible? Known and obvious items come to mind in the extended. This is not mooching off the system, but rather obtaining benefits when you are entitled. Real needs, not slacker welfare scamming.
These are obvious:
1. Collect unemployment from the state.
2. Receive assistance with food (food stamps/EBT cards).
3. Free healthcare to children (not likely with non-sr. adults)
4. Free new energy-efficient toilets installed (up to 2, with local utility company).
5. Reduced utilities bills.
Wait! Free new toilets - installed? Yes. An actual benefit to low-income households who qualify.
Surely a family in need should know about the various perks of their situation while they can take advantage of them. The hope is that this post will continue to be RESOURCEFUL to future inquirers, so please be positive and specific, with links, info. and thoughtful tips. Thanks!
These are obvious:
1. Collect unemployment from the state.
2. Receive assistance with food (food stamps/EBT cards).
3. Free healthcare to children (not likely with non-sr. adults)
4. Free new energy-efficient toilets installed (up to 2, with local utility company).
5. Reduced utilities bills.
Wait! Free new toilets - installed? Yes. An actual benefit to low-income households who qualify.
Surely a family in need should know about the various perks of their situation while they can take advantage of them. The hope is that this post will continue to be RESOURCEFUL to future inquirers, so please be positive and specific, with links, info. and thoughtful tips. Thanks!
This post was deleted for the following reason: Heart in the right place, but this is more a blog post sort of situation than what AskMe is meant for. -- cortex
Response by poster: Yep - but not necessarily our household. It occurred to us that this question deserved a little wider audience. The economy is putting a lot of people out of the normal lives they once enjoyed. Many are losing homes to foreclosure, suffering bad credit and finding it difficult to even rent as a result. They're going from having a home to being completely dependent on others, with no stopgap interim to buffer the trauma that entails.
Certainly other cities (US, if we should specify) have similar programs and benefits to find out about?
posted by ValveAnnex at 7:10 PM on June 9, 2011
Certainly other cities (US, if we should specify) have similar programs and benefits to find out about?
posted by ValveAnnex at 7:10 PM on June 9, 2011
Every city and state is going to have different programs, this isn't a question you can really leave open-ended and expect to get useful results.
posted by Jairus at 7:17 PM on June 9, 2011
posted by Jairus at 7:17 PM on June 9, 2011
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posted by John Cohen at 7:06 PM on June 9, 2011