2023 AssHat Voting round 4!

pharmakos said:

If there was a job near me where I could get away with "working" while posting on FoH 100 times a day, I'd be all over it, trust me.

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Araysar said:

Oh you got time to memorize the Bible, but no time to find a job, huh?

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Rajaah said:

I might be wrong, but I think under disability you're still "allowed" to have a job or make money up to a certain point. A lot of people seem to be under the impression that you just flat-out lose disability if you work, so you "can't work" or whatever. But yeah, unless I'm totally wrong, you can work while on disability and still receive it. The cap is probably some low amount, like working 10 hours a week or something. If you found something to do every Saturday or something, it would be a good start on being more productive and maybe getting back into the swing of making money. You'd also have a bunch more money to work with every month. I'd aim at like $400 or something in month 1 and go from there.

Just some unasked-for financial advice for getting out from under the government thumb (which you're technically under even if it seems like they're propping you up, because what they give out is peanuts). Big difference between having $850 to work with and, say, $1250 if you bang out a workday once a week. And that's going off of minimum wage and a lot of guessing.

One of my older relatives is on some sort of social security / disability combination and makes an extra $500-900 a month from knitting winter hats/gloves for like 10 hours a week and selling them on Ebay, and the government doesn't SEEM to care at all. Makes a huge difference in QOL because if she sat on the couch all the time she'd be poor as dirt and probably sick.

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pharmakos said:

?? He could work as many hours as he wants. I think the limit is like $1200 a month between your disability check and your job. And working extra hours beyond that is still worth it, just not as worth it... Diminishing returns sort of thing. Still there isn't a point at which you make LESS money by working more. Excepting certain situations when you're in low income housing and your rent payment slides depending on how much you made each month. That's rare tho. And low income housing is so hard to get into in Michigan (I'm in the Thumb btw, just moved to Brown City, north of Imlay City) that odds are he's not in it...

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lurkingdirk said:

Voting is closed. Counting time. Give me some time and don't bitch.

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