nick007 wrote:
My girlfriend is planning on staying on SSI for the rest of her life due to mental & physical issues. She has a Section 8 housing voucher which pays most of her rent. It allows her to rent from private & public places. It's based on her income, utilities, & medical expenses. She had to live in a low income place for a year before they approved her. The waiting list is probably longer now. She also has food-stamps(SNAP) which goes by how much her rent, utilities, medical expenses, phone costs, & her income of coarse but the GOP is trying to majorly cut & change the program. She also gets fuel assistance which is a one time payment for her gas which we use alot of in winter cuz Vermont gets pretty cold. She has Medicaid too.
I was on SSI before I started working & the Louisiana state Medicaid s#cked. No docs in my area would accept it cuz it didn't pay them enough so I had to have private health insurance, later insurance through work, & then COBRA 1ce I quit working & the COBRA health care cost me about half my SSI check. None of my insurance covered mental stuff other than meds so I had to pay out of pocket to see my psychiatrist. I also had copays & deductibles with all my non-Medicaid insurance. Getting my own place seemed impossible when I was just on SSI & not working. I'm on Social Security Disability now & get alittle more than SSI but it also gives me Medicare & Medicaid pays for it. All the docs in Vermont that me & Cass seen accept the state Medicaid so we don't really have health care cost other than copays for prescriptions which isn't much, full cost of nonprescription meds, & full cost of miscellaneous stuff like supplements & 1st-aid items.
I guess it's different for everyone :/
07 May 2018, 3:08 pm
