Posted by Gabbix2 on November 18, 2005, at 18:29:19
In reply to Re: just one more... » alexandra_k, posted by AuntieMel on November 17, 2005, at 13:44:55
> I can't see (except for the most destitute homeless) why anyone who makes ends meet couldn't do it on 5% to 10% less and save and invest the rest. It really doesn't take cutting much - a CD here, a movie there, a meatless night, whatever fits.
I'm speaking from a Canadian perspective here I don't know what the U.S public assistance rates are.
Here there are people who choose to be homeless because if they can find someone who will sign a fake rent receipt they can collect money from Welfare for rent, and then actually have enough to live on, and no I'm not criticizing that.A single person on welfare receives 500.00 month. 325.00 of that is designated for rent, which means if you share an apartment and get cheaper rent, say 250.00, then 250.00 is all you'll get from welfare.
A study I read about just yesterday (which I really didn't need to know) showed that a single person on welfare, on average lives on 20.00 a month. That's for everything but rent, because they have to take usually at least 75.00 out of the alloted support money, to make up for the cost of a place to live. Even a rooming house is 425.00
Twenty dollars a week (slightly less) is what I lived on until I recieved disability benefits.
Sure there's a food bank here, I can't afford bus fare to get to it though.I think that's why it's not just the homeless who can't save 10% of their income.
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