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Originally Posted by jhynesrockmtn
I worked for a few years managing an office for a non profit that did "representative payee" work.
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I've run into a few of these, all were pretty sad cases and I couldn't help them. Well, I'm not sure getting them insurance would have helped them, but they wanted it. One lady was pretty insistent I write her, but when I saw she was on Abilify, I had to find a different company for her, which raised the price. Then she started ranting about her payee and how he never approved anything she wanted to buy. So I knew it was time to walk.
Teaching money mgt skills is certainly something we need to do. But let's not put the cart before the horse. People need to learn very early on that they need
to earn money by working and not depending on the gov't. for a bare subsistence. No kid whose parents are living in Section 8 housing and on SSDI is going to learn that lesson at home. When the gov't. is the keeper of the poor, it keeps them poor. But once they have decided to work and be productive, they can worry about the next problem - managing money. Of all the things I was warned about as a yute that would send my life into a serious wrong turn with little chance of course correction, no one told me that going on SSDI was the worst thing I could ever do. Not that I ever even considered it, but it's worse than heroin. If you're at all able bodied, you need to work. The kids with cerebral palsy bagging groceries at Frys make more $$ there than on SSDI. And that's still not much. But it has some dignity and chance of upward mobility.