wtf, food stamp office?

If you opened this thread just to say 'get a job loser!' or some such thing, start yer own thread. This one's mine.

Anyway.

Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the food stamp/medicaid office? The workers seem less competent than usual to me.

i dont want to open my own thread , i'd rather disrupt yours hahaha , however have you considered that the welfare office workers have a bigger caseload now

murky wrote:

If you opened this thread just to say 'get a job loser!' or some such thing, start yer own thread. This one's mine.
Anyway.
Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the food stamp/medicaid office? The workers seem less competent than usual to me.

Here's a thought,
why don't you apply to work there?
You could solve two problems, 1 - you'd have a job and wouldn't need to be assisted by less than competent workers and 2 - you could actually make a diffrence in how the place operates.

Obvious wrote:

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Here's a thought,
why don't you apply to work there?
You could solve two problems, 1 - you'd have a job and wouldn't need to be assisted by less than competent workers and 2 - you could actually make a diffrence in how the place operates.

Best advice I've seen on here in a very long time !!!

murky wrote:

If you opened this thread just to say 'get a job loser!' or some such thing, start yer own thread. This one's mine.
Anyway.
Anyone else having a lot of trouble with the food stamp/medicaid office? The workers seem less competent than usual to me.

Look who they have to deal with.

I understand that they have a lot of people to help, but sometimes it seems like they make stupid mistakes (if it's actually a mistake and not on purpose) and then won't fix it or even admit that THEY might have screwed up. I hate that.

As for why I don't apply to work there, I'm disabled. If anyone else wants to work there, I say go for it. Just do the job right if you get it.

murky wrote:

I understand that they have a lot of people to help, but sometimes it seems like they make stupid mistakes (if it's actually a mistake and not on purpose) and then won't fix it or even admit that THEY might have screwed up. I hate that.
As for why I don't apply to work there, I'm disabled. If anyone else wants to work there, I say go for it. Just do the job right if you get it.

Stephen Hawking is disabled, so is Marlee Matlin. Albert Einstein had a learning disability. I've got my own noggin problems but make a good living as an engineer. What's your excuse?

murky wrote:

I understand that they have a lot of people to help, but sometimes it seems like they make stupid mistakes (if it's actually a mistake and not on purpose) and then won't fix it or even admit that THEY might have screwed up. I hate that.
As for why I don't apply to work there, I'm disabled. If anyone else wants to work there, I say go for it. Just do the job right if you get it.

I have always heard that if you're not part of the solution, then you are part of the problem.
Simply posting anonymous complaints on a public forum does not make you part of the solution.
I saw a news story on Channel 6 about a woman who is on public assistance and whose rent is being doubled. She asked Raphael Sanchez to help her, and they have a big story about it.
Maybe you should try something like that.
Random anonymous people on message boards aren't going to have the ability, or most likely the desire, to help you.

So I'm part of the problem. I can live with that.

I don't expect help from random people. I just started a thread to see if anyone else had noticed anything different.

murky wrote:

So I'm part of the problem. I can live with that.
I don't expect help from random people. I just started a thread to see if anyone else had noticed anything different.

Not from random people, just all the tax-paying people.

Nah, I'm just yankin' ya. I'm sure there's a debilitating illness that allows you to proficiently use a computer but unable to do simple clerical work.

I suppose on a good day I COULD do simple clerical work, but do you think people want someone with disorganized schizophrenia handling their business? Would YOU?

I feel you, I have all the problems in the world with them!!

murky wrote:

I suppose on a good day I COULD do simple clerical work, but do you think people want someone with disorganized schizophrenia handling their business? Would YOU?

But of course, it's much easier to fall back on the "I'm broken" excuse and let the state take care of you. It's people like you that make the rest of us have to put in even more effort to be accepted into society. I myself was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in my early twenties but with dedication, self-discipline, and a touch of medication, it's possible (not easy, but possible) to be competitive in the world.

I think someone told you a long time ago that you couldn't do anything and you just accepted it. Let me tell you, it's possible. Find something you can do and do your best at it. For example, you're good at typing. Write. "Normal" people pay good money to be entertained by the kind of sh*t that goes through our heads.

My faults aside, here's what the food stamp/Medicaid people have done lately.

I had a recertification appointment. Not a big deal, and I was giving a list of things to bring back to the office-bank statements, proof of income and expenses, etc. Again, not a big deal, I brought everything I was supposed to.

Then I get a letter saying that I *didn't* bring stuff in and that I've been denied. I filed an appeal, even though I'm not sure what that means or what it does.

Meantime, I re-applied.(I've got children to feed and keep healthy. I wasn't sure I could wait for whatever, if any, action might be taken in the case of an appeal.)

Everything looked like it was going well, I was suposed to get a call on a certain date for an interview. A friend of mine who applied about the same time I did was also supposed to get a call, and...they never called him.
Needless to say, I was apprehensive.

BUT the lady called me, and asked a few questions that I was able to answer, and she said she would send me a list of things to bring in. It was going pretty well. Then she asked if I had any questions. I made the mistake of asking what happened to all the paperwork that I brought in a month ago. BIG MISTAKE!

The formerly calm, businesslike caseworker started babbling on in an agitated fashion about how I had a different worker before her (bullshit. I've only had this same worker in the two years I've been going there)and she didn't know what the other lady might have told me. She also kept saying that the bank statements from September were OLD, and that they needed the NEW ones from October/November.

(I was told they didnt' get my paperwork from 2 months ago? Confusing.)

Needless to say, I still haven't recieved my list, and I know I only have a certain number of days to turn this stuff in.

What I want to know is, WHO is in charge of these people? How can they play games with other people's lives like this?

Murky wrote:

My faults aside, here's what the food stamp/Medicaid people have done lately.
I had a recertification appointment. Not a big deal, and I was giving a list of things to bring back to the office-bank statements, proof of income and expenses, etc. Again, not a big deal, I brought everything I was supposed to.
Then I get a letter saying that I *didn't* bring stuff in and that I've been denied. I filed an appeal, even though I'm not sure what that means or what it does.
Meantime, I re-applied.(I've got children to feed and keep healthy. I wasn't sure I could wait for whatever, if any, action might be taken in the case of an appeal.)
Everything looked like it was going well, I was suposed to get a call on a certain date for an interview. A friend of mine who applied about the same time I did was also supposed to get a call, and...they never called him.
Needless to say, I was apprehensive.
BUT the lady called me, and asked a few questions that I was able to answer, and she said she would send me a list of things to bring in. It was going pretty well. Then she asked if I had any questions. I made the mistake of asking what happened to all the paperwork that I brought in a month ago. BIG MISTAKE!
The formerly calm, businesslike caseworker started babbling on in an agitated fashion about how I had a different worker before her (bullshit. I've only had this same worker in the two years I've been going there)and she didn't know what the other lady might have told me. She also kept saying that the bank statements from September were OLD, and that they needed the NEW ones from October/November.
(I was told they didnt' get my paperwork from 2 months ago? Confusing.)
Needless to say, I still haven't recieved my list, and I know I only have a certain number of days to turn this stuff in.
What I want to know is, WHO is in charge of these people? How can they play games with other people's lives like this?

I feel for ya.
Some people just like to feel superior (like the dude from Carmel).
I won't deal with the idiots in government....

Murky wrote:

My faults aside, here's what the food stamp/Medicaid people have done lately...

Unfortunately you are dealing with people who were probably hired because they are friends, or relatives of someone in office, and they could care less about actually helping people.
I am sorry for your situation, but this is what government does best.

Imagine what it will be like when they control your health care, but that is a discussion for another thread.

Call back and ask to speak to a superior. Call as many times as you need to, until you get satisfaction. I wouldn't care about who you upset, or how many times you upset them. Keep calling and they will eventually get someone to help you, if for no other reason than to keep you from calling. I would start with calling twice a day, every day, once in the morning and once after lunch. Be nice, be pleasant, but don't take NO for an answer. After a couple of days, if you don't get a response, up the number of calls to four, two in the morning and two after lunch. After a couple of days, if you still aren't satisfied, call every hour. Be pleasant and nice, but don't give up.

Anyone else notice that "disabled" has become a synonym for lazy?

Linda Bledsoe wrote:

Anyone else notice that "disabled" has become a synonym for lazy?

I don't necessarily think that's true.
I do, however, think that we have "loosened" the standards for what qualifies as disabled, which allows for laxy people to weasel in and take advantace of the system.
Did you know that not being able to properly operate a cell phone technically qualifies as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act?

Everyone I know that has been on disability or unemployment is lazy.

Murky wrote:

How can they play games with other people's lives like this?

They may not be playing games. If you knew what it was like to hold a job, you'd know that work piles up and more often than not there aren't enough people to handle it all as fast as you would like.

I'm not trying to feel I'm superior; I'm trying to say it's not impossible to fend for yourself in this world.