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Fibromyalgia | Last Active: Feb 26 8:41pm | Replies (1327)

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@oregongirl

Yes, you work hard at your employment giving your all only to retire and realize, there is NO money going into the bank, just out of the bank. The kids today are different. They saw how we struggled after retirement. They now demand retirement benefits from their employers plus vacation, sick leave you name it. When you are self employed your your employee get the day off. Not you. I made a good living. I make too much to get help, and to little to survive. When my husband became ill, and died, I lost his SS. and his Navy benefit. I went from comfortable to poverty overnight. I am very fortunate. A friend of mine had no one to leave his home to. He left it to me. I lived there two years after he died. But, medical was NILL where I lived in the middle of nowhere. So, sold house and moved to Texas. Best medical I could ask for. I guess I just dont know the games you can play to get this and that from the County. I know a friend of mine lives very comfortable while the County pays her rent and drives her two hours to the doctor and back. I pay my rent and I pay my ride over and back. Does not seem fair.

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Are you over 65? If you are you can get your husband's social security I do I get widows social security as my husband's made more then I did.Most of the people here are well if ,they know how to hide there money ,they get cash and give it to there kids I never could do that.In L.A. County the income level for Sec 8 is 29,000 a year.I never made more then 22 myself ,This senior building is 6floors ,we have a gym ,library,computer room,rooftop is finished for our uses,so all in all I'm comfortable.

I did drop my SS and took his. But together we had his and mine and his VA benefits

It's hard to get used to the drop in pay One time when I was working I was getting 6paychecks a month then the bottom fell out ,shocker

I had to drop my long term insurance and I list two rentals I owned. Made me sick.

Sorry about your LTI I'm so blessed my son pays mine ,he doesn't want to when I need it so before he married he took it out for me .

Lucky you. I asked my kids to take over a 300,000 life insurance. They never responded and I let it go. It WD have meant 100,00 to each child. They are to busy to think of the older years.