September 2010 Low-Income Thread - Page 6

[surrogate]

i feel you crazyeight, i tried to get my ods RX filled again yesterday...still no medicaid *sigh* giving it til wed then i am calling again and speaking to her supervisor. This is crap.

[jewellz]

How does TANF work? Do both my hubby and I have to look for work or just him to get benefits?

[maciascl]

Originally Posted by jewellz

How does TANF work? Do both my hubby and I have to look for work or just him to get benefits?

Food stamps is based on your income and family size. They have never asked if anyone was looking for work.

[thatgirliknew]

Originally Posted by jewellz

How does TANF work? Do both my hubby and I have to look for work or just him to get benefits?

Kentucky TANF Progam Overview
TANF was created to help families in need. The TANF bureau works with families to help them become self sufficient.
TANF's program features include:
1. Assisting needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes.
2. Preventative measures for out of wedlock pregnancy.
3. The encouragement of two parent families.
4. Reduction of the dependency of needy parents by assisting with job preparation.

There is a maximum of 60 months of TANF benefits within one's lifetimes.
Children under age 5 must be current with childhood immunizations and children age 6 to 18 must attend school and parents or caretakers must participate in school conferences.
Countable assets must be $2,000 or less and licensed vehicles needed for individuals subject to the work requirement may not exceed $8,500.
Work requirements: Adults in families receiving cash assistance must work or participate in work related activities for a specified number of hours per week depending on the number of work-eligible adults in the family and the age of children.
Single parents with a child under age 6
20 hours weekly in core work activities.

Other single parent families or two-parent families where one parent is disabled 30 hours weekly with at least 20 hours in core activities.

Married teen or teen head of household under age 20.
Maintains satisfactory attendance at secondary school or the equivalent or participates in education related to employment for at least 20 hours weekly.

Two-parent families who do not receive subsidized child care 35 hours per week (total among both parents) with at least 30 hours in core activities.

Two-parent families who receive subsidized child care 55 hours per week with at least 50 hours in core activities

Work Activities:
1. Unsubsidized employment
2. Subsidized private sector employment
3. Subsidized public sector employment
4. Job search and job readiness (limited to not more than 6 weeks in a federal fiscal year with not more than 4 weeks consecutive).
5. Community service
6. Work experience
7. On-the-job training
8. Vocational educational training (limited to 12 months for an individual), and
9. Caring for a child of a recipient in community service
10. Job skills training directly related to employment
11. Education directly related to employment (for those without a high school or equivalent degree)
12. Completion of a secondary school program
http://www.tanf.us/kentucky.html

These are the rules in my state. I had TANF for about 8 months (6 of which I was under 18 and not required to work.) As soon as I turned 18 and didn't have a job, I had to take job-readiness classes AND as a word of advice I was not allowed to take ANY jobs that I receieved in those 4 weeks or else I would be sanctioned. And at the time it was a two-individual household and we only received $225/mo. But they did disregard income for two months and they supply uniforms or whatever else you may need for your job, plus car repairs up to $500. Once my two months were up I could get a small ($100) subsidy for a couple months for "travel expenses" to my job.

[zebra15]

Originally Posted by jewellz

How does TANF work? Do both my hubby and I have to look for work or just him to get benefits?

If you are doing the cash assistance my understanding is all adults need to be enrolled in the job training program. im sure there are some ways around that but both adults need to be doing something (or paperwork/waivers)

[zebra15]

So far this week I have work scheduled for THREE days... That is just totally awesome Tuesday, Thursday and Friday... all for Jr high classes... If im lucky I will get Weds too, if not thats ok...(but I really hope for something on weds)....

OTOH ds has been having major attitude lately and I DONT LIKE IT... lol

[CherryBomb]

Blah! I haven't posted in a bit but I'm so stressed. We are STILL waiting on dh's student loan money. Money that I desperately need to catch up on bills. We have NEVER had to wait this long. They started dispersing the 13th...according to his disclosure statemnt, they've have his money since the 21st and we are STILL WAITING. It's making me sick I'm so stressed out. On top of that, my washer is going out, and obviousy I can't get it repaired or even consider buying a new (cheap) one without student loan money. Oh, and the debt management company we've been using for the past two years has decided to not pay anyone for the last 3 months (yet keep taking money from us every month!) so now we've got all these collection notices and seriously past due accounts. They keep giving us the run around, I had to pay $23 dollars to put a hold on them taking any more money from us.

At least we did get some money from the class action against dh's former employer, so I was able to finish buying what we need for the baby (who's due in 10 days!)

Prayers or good thoughts or whatever for this damn money to show up eventually are appreciated!

[Hey Mama!]

Does he have some type of hold on his account preventing them from releasing his excess aid? I had that happen the first semester I went back to school, and it was over an address verification. They do it every semester at our school. Also, we have to request our refund online every semester as well.

[CherryBomb]

Originally Posted by Hey Mama!

Does he have some type of hold on his account preventing them from releasing his excess aid? I had that happen the first semester I went back to school, and it was over an address verification. They do it every semester at our school. Also, we have to request our refund online every semester as well.

Nope. He's called twice and everything is in order. They're just taking forever. he's not the only one waiting, the local paper even had a blurb about how much longer it was taking and how many people were still waiting. Blah.

[frugalmama]

We're having a yard sale Friday and Saturday - need to make enough to buy a bus pass for October and pay for DD's Girl Scout Dues and my leader fees.

Still haven't fixed the roof yet - can't find a roofer willing to just do a patch. Everyone wants to just replace the entire roof - to the tune of around $8k which we don't have. If we could sell our car - maybe then.

[surrogate]

still no insurance....I called today and left VM with both the caseworker AND the supervisor...i am beyond angry at this point...ugh

[surrogate]

wooohoo

just spoke to my casworker and she said their ins is active! She was VERY nice today too...i think she may have just been having a bad day last mon