• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Being disabled after a decade of working is fun.

    Went from making $36 an hour to… about $11.50 from SSDI.

    Was too injured to even apply for unemployment in time, not that it would have mattered as I was utterly incapable of ‘seeking work’.

    More fun examples of how the poor live

    Pro: Managed to Qualify for Section 8 in only 6 months.

    Con: It almost certainly won’t matter, as I got evicted from the inability to work, and now my credit score is also abysmal, and all Section 8 is is privately owned apartments (cough slumlords cough) who choose to accept a portion of rent and utility payments from Sec 8, that can absolutely refuse you for an eviction or bad credit, and have their own waitlists.

    Once awarded a Section 8 voucher, well they expire in a couple months if you don’t find a place. So you have to wait months or years again for Section 8 applications to even open up again, then apply for Section 8 and wait months or years to be awarded a voucher again, and then apply to Section 8 accepting slums with gigantic waitlists again.

    Roach motels for my foreseeable future!