Bills & Rent
goldfish21
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Joined: 17 Feb 2013
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 22,612
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
With money.
Savings.
Retired/Pension.
Inheritance.
Trust fund.
Welfare.
Disability.
Employment insurance.
Investment income.
Alimony.
Insurance settlements.
Lottery winnings.
Theft/fraud.
Credit.
Drug money.
Or not with money.
Bartering labour or goods/services.
Sex work.
Squatting in an empty home or on crown land.
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No for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.
Savings.
Retired/Pension.
Inheritance.
Trust fund.
Welfare.
Disability.
Employment insurance.
Investment income.
Alimony.
Insurance settlements.
Lottery winnings.
Theft/fraud.
Credit.
Drug money.
Or not with money.
Bartering labour or goods/services.
Sex work.
Squatting in an empty home or on crown land.
You forgot extortion, co-dependency, and using other people for a free ride.
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Sweetleaf
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Joined: 6 Jan 2011
Age: 34
Gender: Female
Posts: 34,474
Location: Somewhere in Colorado
I am on disability so I usually use some and/or most of that to pay rent and other then that I have gotten part time work while remaining on disability as that is a thing you can do. Though they will reduce your disability payment based on how much money you make.
I also live with my boyfriend who pays half the rent, but if I didn't live with him I'd probably be in subsidized housing, where the state or whatever pays some of the cost and you just pay like 30% of your disability money or something like that. I was approved for the subsidized housing but it was just around the time things got serious with my boyfriend and we wanted to move in together so I did that instead. Don't think he would have been able to live with me if I got the subsidized housing since it is specifically for like disabled people to have help paying rent, so I couldn't have just had my non disabled boyfriend move in at least not legally.
I am in the U.S of course, so obviously this does not necessarily apply elsewhere.
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We won't go back.
I also live with my boyfriend who pays half the rent, but if I didn't live with him I'd probably be in subsidized housing, where the state or whatever pays some of the cost and you just pay like 30% of your disability money or something like that. I was approved for the subsidized housing but it was just around the time things got serious with my boyfriend and we wanted to move in together so I did that instead. Don't think he would have been able to live with me if I got the subsidized housing since it is specifically for like disabled people to have help paying rent, so I couldn't have just had my non disabled boyfriend move in at least not legally.
I am in the U.S of course, so obviously this does not necessarily apply elsewhere.
I am in USA too. What is subsidized housing?
nick007
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Joined: 4 May 2010
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Posts: 27,129
Location: was Louisiana but now Vermont in the police state called USA
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Ways to live without working:
- Savings. Usually it's people who have had good jobs at some point that have enough savings to live off of.
- Investments. Some people make enough of investments that they don't need to work to get by, but that invested sum had to come from somewhere, so they have likely worked before.
- Parents pay. Sometimes this applies even if one no longer lives with their parents.
- Their partner pays for stuff, either because one is temporarily jobless or they've made a deal that one will stay home to look after kids or something for a certain time and during that time, the other pays.
- Loans. Living with loaned money is pretty common when one goes to university, and it's by no means unheard of to need a loan to live during lower studies than that. Many people have to work and take a student loan.
- Retirement money. For older people retiring, it tends to be self earned by working a lot, and then there's disability retirement money paid by taxpayers that is for those who can't work due to health reasons despite not being old enough to retire from old age.
- And of course, benefits. Different kinds, like unemployment benefits, disability benefits etc.
I worked and saved when I was younger, and made money with investments (real estate). I made sure that my job offered long term disability insurance in case I became ill, and a pension provision for retirement. I ended up claiming disability after working 20+ years and contributing to the fund. I can retire next year or postpone it because disability actually pays more than retirement. In the meantime I continue to make investments for the future.
Another key idea is to have your credit cards and debts / mortgage insured for critical illness and disability. That way if you suddenly can't work / pay, your debts will be forgiven. Unfortunately for me my stroke happened just a couple of weeks after I cancelled my mortgage insurance. My house would have been paid off instantly. Frown. Lesson learned.
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