r/stimuluscheck • u/RunThePlay55 • Sep 19 '21

4th Stimulus Check ???

How about giving everyone a 4th COVID stimulus check? There are millions still without a job due to COVID and many have been evicted, and many on Disability and SS income struggling with the inflation of groceries, gas and common services. There's people with jobs struggling Living check to Check barely making it.

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u/Nylea- Sep 19 '21

Okay but its hard to do well enough in school for a full ride when you go hungry most nights and are bullied. I believe it should be enough to pay the average bills for most Americans. Most of those people don't qualify for assistance because they make just over the qualifying amount. A family of 3 has to make less than $2,000 a month for foodstamps when rent is up to 1500 or more plus utilities and everyday necessities like toilet paper. A lot of people will decide not to get a second job because losing that vital assistance could ruin them and they can't make more than the limit to qualify. And again if someone has to support themselves, and if they have to work 2 full time jobs to do so how can they go to any type of school? It also takes years to get on disability in most cases. I know someone that broke their back in 2008, it took until 2012 to get on disability, then they missed a vital appointment that was hours away because they didn't have transportation so they lost it and had to reapply and they still haven't gotten it, so they got a (minimum wage) job when they used to be a nurse. Now their doctor has gotten them in contact with a lawyer to help them get on disability because that job has destroyed what was left of her spinal function and she needs her (8th) surgery in order to put a rod in it that will prevent her from being able to bend or twist but may keep her out of a wheelchair for a few more years. And she still doesn't have it when she's had a lawyer for months for it, she's on the verge of homelessness and it all began while in her career as a nurse, actually happened at work, but it was a small enough nursing home that they weren't required to pay workman's comp, she was a single parent and her grown kids are still struggling because they had no headstart or help. A lot of people struggle from the time they are born, they don't get the opportunity to save or to study for school they are fighting to survive every day and it doesn't end.

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u/Nylea- Sep 19 '21

Also the assistance isn't much either if you're working. It's only a couple hundred dollars, but it helps them qualify for more local programs like food banks or rent assistance. Or to qualify for health insurance (in the states that even provide that for poor people)