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Food stamps for fast food - REALLY???????
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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 459476" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>I could go and get the federal guidelines or tell you were to get them for different programs...but...the rules are different for different things. Heather is right for medicaid and Food stamps and cash assistance...a child's income is not counted as income in a "household" if they are under 18 and attending school. It all depends. Now for free lunches, it does depend. If a family receives any sort of assistance such as TANF, SSI, FS, or if the child is a foster child, then the family is approved automatically for free lunch, otherwise then they do have to count the entire family income and compare it to I believe it is 170% of the poverty level. Dont quote me on the percentage though. </p><p></p><p>In medicaid in my situation, I am not considered in the same household as Tony because we arent married and that was something that I actually thought about years ago and deliberately didnt get married. Only my income is counted. </p><p></p><p>And yes, I got very irritated when I was a caseworker and all those clients came in wearing fancy clothes that I couldnt afford with their kids in Air Jordans and dripping in gold (fake or not I have no clue). They were living in public housing, getting somewhere around 300 to 400 a month in cash, 600 or more in FS, their utilities paid, and probably have a boyfriend or two giving them cash on the side. Meanwhile I was working 50 hours a week to keep them in their benefits and bringing home 1100 a month if that and I had to pay for my own insurance and copays while they didnt have to pay anything for medication or copays. yeah sometimes I got irritated but I knew I was there for the people that werent dripping in gold and air jordans. I had more people who werent scamming than were...honestly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 459476, member: 1514"] I could go and get the federal guidelines or tell you were to get them for different programs...but...the rules are different for different things. Heather is right for medicaid and Food stamps and cash assistance...a child's income is not counted as income in a "household" if they are under 18 and attending school. It all depends. Now for free lunches, it does depend. If a family receives any sort of assistance such as TANF, SSI, FS, or if the child is a foster child, then the family is approved automatically for free lunch, otherwise then they do have to count the entire family income and compare it to I believe it is 170% of the poverty level. Dont quote me on the percentage though. In medicaid in my situation, I am not considered in the same household as Tony because we arent married and that was something that I actually thought about years ago and deliberately didnt get married. Only my income is counted. And yes, I got very irritated when I was a caseworker and all those clients came in wearing fancy clothes that I couldnt afford with their kids in Air Jordans and dripping in gold (fake or not I have no clue). They were living in public housing, getting somewhere around 300 to 400 a month in cash, 600 or more in FS, their utilities paid, and probably have a boyfriend or two giving them cash on the side. Meanwhile I was working 50 hours a week to keep them in their benefits and bringing home 1100 a month if that and I had to pay for my own insurance and copays while they didnt have to pay anything for medication or copays. yeah sometimes I got irritated but I knew I was there for the people that werent dripping in gold and air jordans. I had more people who werent scamming than were...honestly. [/QUOTE]
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