Hi, everybody! I'm slowly working on getting back up to speed. I'm halfway through thread #28, so apologies for the Like notifications for old posts that keep popping up at you, lol. I had a thought today that I wanted to jump ahead and post before my brain scrambles up again.
With the "Poor Katie suffers ever so much" campaign BLAB seems to still be on with her sudden supposed anxiety/adhd/vapors/delusions of humanity, they definitely appear to be aiming for Katie to get herself some of that sweet, sweet Social Security Disability money. [Laughing through the pain at the reality of the unsurvivable pennies SS grudgingly makes people dance for.] What they don't seem to realize is that there are two more qualifications besides being disabled.
The first is Social Security's points system. Unless you were disabled as a child, you have to have earned enough points from years of working to qualify for disability. Katie's young, and her work history is a bit spotty, but it's possible that she's met this one.
The second qualification is the killer. It's all about something called your "date last insured". Disability is technically insurance. If you haven't worked in a while, you are no longer covered by that insurance. You have to have proof that you were working. This is the one that's going to screw Katie (insert joke here), because she can't just hand Social Security an ugly logo sweatshirt. I don't know if doing YouTube videos even counts as work, but if everything is in Spencer's name, she has no official proof of being paid for work. No work, no Disability.
Whoops! Sorry, Katie. Either you expose your earnings to your legal husband, or you kiss your Disability dreams goodbye.
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In other news, you all are sweet and awesome, and thank you bazillions for your
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's and replies. Things are a bit more stabilized at the moment (knocking wood like Tio Bruno
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). I even felt well enough a few days ago for my mom to take me over to Magic Kingdom for a couple of hours. I ended up having such an unexpectedly magical time that I cried on Dumbo like a total dork, lol. I miss you guys!! I'm going to try to pop in more, and I promise I'll eventually catch up!