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marble falls

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4. A friend who is seriously disabled makes just over $800/month SS, pays almost $600/mounth ...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 10:21 PM
Jan 2020

for rent in public housing and get $26/month in food stamps in Ohio. He doesn't dare leave the county because he'd have to start up the process to get medical coverage all over again, and he won't get Medicare until he's 65.

There is no way at 62 anyone will hire him and hardly anyway he could work, let alone he barely keeps his junker running and insured.

Its almost like someone wants him to give up and crawl into his grave. I expect to get a bad phone call from another friend at some point.

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