yes, you can be on all government benefits, plus child support. Depending on your "income" and how many kids you have, you can get a 3-4 bedroom house for almost nothing per month. Not in the nicest of neighborhoods, but whatever, it's a roof. Yes, there is a line for housing, but once you get it, as long as you are not a criminal, you have it. I know a father who had his kids removed for over a year by social services, and he kept his 3 bedroom house paid for by all of us. You can't call anyone to complain; as poorly paid public servants waiting for their own retirement benefits, they don't care and don't listen.
There are lots of community resources for food stamp recipients to receive much cheaper food; some expired, but still good. It's not so much the poor who are suffering, it's the middle class who is trying and getting squeezed in every direction.
This is not to say people still aren't living in the woods, and in desperate poverty, and older people who no longer have children with them are truly victimized in every area possible, but the "savvy poor" in their 20-30's can manage. |
