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- Aug 22, 2013
The law states only one care giver per family can receive benefits. For example, I know families where the mother is the carer and although the father is also considered a carer only one person receives a carer payment (all the carers involved work full time on top of being carers and they still receive a carer's allowence). So, if Rafe is her MIL's carer her wife can't also claim benefits.
Welfare fraud is a lot less common than people tend to believe, looking at it from a criminal statistics perspective. It's not that easy to get disability as an adult, especially in blue states. If you're diagnosed with issues like extreme anxiety as a child and the government labels you disabled then it's easy for that to be carried over into the person's life as an adult, which is how quite a lot of adults get disability. Generational welfare is a huge problem, especially in poorer states like Kentucky. It's when people collecting disability have kids, and those kids get diagnosed with whatever as children and draw a cheque, then they have kids later on while still collecting disability and then they get those kids on disability. Sometimes there's shenanigans involved and other times the disability is legitimately passed on through unfortunate genetics. I suspect there is some generational welfare going on with the families of these girls from rural Kentucky.
It's much easier to scam the state when there's a family history of disability than when an adult decides they don't want to work and try to essentially fake their way to disability payments.
It's hard to quantify invisible disabilities and mental illness online. Rafe certainly seems outgoing online, though. I understand that anxiety isn't necessarily a 24/7 thing but I have a hard time believing that it's severe enough for her to be on disability for.
It makes me wonder if perhaps she was diagnosed legitimately as a teenager and since it's hard to disprove a diagnosis of severe anxiety the government just listened to her doctors and allowed her to keep receiving payments.
I really hope her cats are going to live through her absence. I know that sounds overly dramatic, but Destiny has to drive almost an hour (each way?) to feed those cats every day. Her girlfriend couldn't find a spare hour to take her gravely ill puppy to the vet in an entire month until it died, so it's not like Dana's going to be encouraging or reminding her.
Also, they didn't mention anything about cleaning litter boxes that I heard so they could potentially be overflowing by the time Amber gets back. When a cat's tray gets too dirty they definitely start going elsewhere, they hate unclean toilet spaces.
Welfare fraud is a lot less common than people tend to believe, looking at it from a criminal statistics perspective. It's not that easy to get disability as an adult, especially in blue states. If you're diagnosed with issues like extreme anxiety as a child and the government labels you disabled then it's easy for that to be carried over into the person's life as an adult, which is how quite a lot of adults get disability. Generational welfare is a huge problem, especially in poorer states like Kentucky. It's when people collecting disability have kids, and those kids get diagnosed with whatever as children and draw a cheque, then they have kids later on while still collecting disability and then they get those kids on disability. Sometimes there's shenanigans involved and other times the disability is legitimately passed on through unfortunate genetics. I suspect there is some generational welfare going on with the families of these girls from rural Kentucky.
It's much easier to scam the state when there's a family history of disability than when an adult decides they don't want to work and try to essentially fake their way to disability payments.
It's hard to quantify invisible disabilities and mental illness online. Rafe certainly seems outgoing online, though. I understand that anxiety isn't necessarily a 24/7 thing but I have a hard time believing that it's severe enough for her to be on disability for.
It makes me wonder if perhaps she was diagnosed legitimately as a teenager and since it's hard to disprove a diagnosis of severe anxiety the government just listened to her doctors and allowed her to keep receiving payments.
I really hope her cats are going to live through her absence. I know that sounds overly dramatic, but Destiny has to drive almost an hour (each way?) to feed those cats every day. Her girlfriend couldn't find a spare hour to take her gravely ill puppy to the vet in an entire month until it died, so it's not like Dana's going to be encouraging or reminding her.
Also, they didn't mention anything about cleaning litter boxes that I heard so they could potentially be overflowing by the time Amber gets back. When a cat's tray gets too dirty they definitely start going elsewhere, they hate unclean toilet spaces.
