What Does Economic Struggle Look Like?
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I am a lung cancer survior.Elderly and on fixed income.No money for dentures,glasses and need a toilet fridge and air conditioner.I carry water to flush toilet Judith Sarasota Fla.
judith Sarasota, FL
I'll be 67 next month. That is just one step closer to being in a Nursing Home. I dread that and figure I will just go ahead and pass rather then be in a nursing home. I live with a friend and when she is mad she tells me that is where I am headed and she don't mean a nicer place. I gave up my house but with medical costs I just can't make it. Every year I have to pay several thousand dollars in co-pay, and that dang "donut hole" (isn't something sweet) it eats my purse dry. Oh, and some drugs my insurace won't cover. Medicine or food? I remember hearing about that when I was a youngin but now its me.
Sandra
Reno, NV
I am 60 years old and living on social security disability. The amount I receive per month is not enough to pay all the bills I have and then have enough for groceries and medicine. I live with family and doen't even pay rent, which I also couldn't afford. I found this web site with the hope that I can learn - is there any foudation or funds that are for seniors who need that amount extra to get through the month and pay rent. I need about $1,000 per month extra and have no idea how to find it. My disability does not allow me to work at any regular job. Thanks if anyone has a comment or information on what to do. I'm despairing of any answer.
Theresa Henderson, NVi am a 55yr. old, who is trying to relocate to the cincinnati,OH area so that i may further my education at the Ohio Art Institute. Today my un-employment insurance ran out, so i'm stuck, I'm in great health, with no real ailing problems, and i know that with a little assistance i can go back to school and in a couple be a valuable asset to the workforce of our country and be self-sufficient. I've been looking but can't seem to find immediate help, rents due in a week, utilities, and i don't know where to turn in the middle of the greatest country on earth. Got any suggestions folks, I'm open to them, school starts in april?
tommie muncie, INI am a 72 year old female who lives on Social Security. If this is stopped or changes to vouchers I will not be able to remain in our home because I have a house note each month. I can't afford the luxury of life as it is. If anything changes I will be forced to live on the street as a homeless person. I have worked all my life and am still struggling from day to day.
Dorothy Washington, DCI am 73 years old almost completely blind raising 3 grandchildren on $865/mo. I could not live without Social Security and missing one would leave me destitute. I am trying to put my grandchildren through college so they an do better but cuts in Pell grants are threatening that. Please support elderly and children - making a civil society a reality. (Submitted for Balibie by another grandmother.)
Balibie Mize, MSI am a 33 yr old female who is the sole caregiver for my grandmother. I quit working and moved in with her when she could no longer live alone. She is 84 and was born in the house she currently lives in. She wants to die in this home. I am doing everything possible to keep her in her home but as I come near the two year mark, it is starting to wear on me. With no other family to help, it is Grandma and I, 24-7. I learned to order groceries and house hold items on line. I started an online store to help supplement income. My grandmother can't walk so I lift her to and from a potty chair when she has to go. I have done everything and more that a family should do to care for their aging loved ones. As the isolation and home bound hysteria started to wear on me, I started looking for some kind of respice care. Just someone to come in every other week or so to give me a few minutes to my self. Maybe help with the cooking or cleaning and keep my grandmother company so that I could take a shower with out being on call. I have found that unless you are on medicaid, there is no support for the elderly who wish to remain at home. You can give up everything you worked your whole life for and go to a nursing home or you can fend for your self at home. I don't understand this. Seems to me it would be in the States best interest to enable the people out there who are trying to stay at home. With the astronomical cost of housing and caring for the elderly, why not offer assistance to the people who are doing it at home and carrying the weight of their older loved ones. I can't afford to pay $20 a hour for someone to come in to the home and sit with my grandmother for a few hours every other week or so. I am struggling as it is. It makes no sense that the state would rather pay the $200-300 dollars a day to house and care for the elderly, instead of spending more on helping the people who are trying to care for their loved ones at home.
Jodie Hertford, NCI am having a hard time just living on social security. Hope you do not take any of this away. My health insurance has asked for a raise. I am having $313.00 taken out of my Social Security check now. When you take that away from $900.00 you don’t have much to pay for the rent. Food, Rent, etc + Medicare. I am 83 years old. Leave me alone.
Hida East New Market, MDI am one stipend from VOA away from being homeless without medicine, transportation, etc.
Dee Denver, COI'm on Social Security disability and I am raising two grandchildren. I don't have custody of them and I draw no extra money for help. We are living from one pay check to paycheck and still do without. If my home wasn't paid for we would have no place to live. My family help with clothes, mainly my sisters. I have hope for a better future for my grandkids. But without my Social Security checks, I would be poorer than ever. Please support our elderly and grandkids without cuts from our money that we have already earned.
Pat Mize, MS
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