Like a lot of white middle class families my family had very strong opinions on "Welfare" etc. One reason I never went for a disability check. When I had Medicaid it was only about a year. The rest of my adult life (save '98 to 2001) I was uninsured.
And I have been uninsured most of my adult life. Dad has been upset about that lately saying he wants Walmart to make me full time. I don't think he gets that if I am I will lose most of the extra pay investing in rides home because I am not taking the bus 2 hours to/from work each day and then working 9 hours at work on top of that. So I am pretty much OK with my income level right now as a result; they have me work 7 hours a day and I take the bus one way.
But I agree I do need insurance. I finally had to tell him I cannot ask my boss for more hours [she is pissed at me right now and I can't give her ammunition]. And a lot of it also goes to pride I don't want to go begging when I am 100% sure the answer is going to be "no" or "change your availability" (I cannot). He was even telling me he doesn't see why it would be a problem to work until midnight if it comes to that.
I do worry about being 100% dependent on someone else to give me a ride. As it is with my current schedule I can take the bus to/from in a pinch.
He has been pretty worked up about it,though. I finally told him if "something catastrophic happened I would just go for Medicaid". He jumped on that and did research while I talked to Mom and found out, with my income, I could get Medicaid and my house is well,well, under the $680K home asset limit. So I will look into that.
We finished our conversation and he sent me a text about 15 minutes later "You also qualify for food stamps it would be $281 a month!"
WHAT HAS HE DONE WITH MY FATHER? I was shocked.
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your income is low enough but I think you can only have around $2000 in savings. A house and/or car are exempt
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