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<p class="fs1 mb2 gray-lighter bc-gray metabox">January 18, 2024 •
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By <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/author/88166e413811ffebcee72a55c4ed23dc798e68f4/" title="Posts by Darla Bardine, Executive Director, National Network 4 Youth" class="author url fn" rel="author">Darla Bardine, Executive Director, National Network 4 Youth</a> </p>
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<p>In the United States, roughly 4.2 million young people— one in 10 young adults ages 18 to 25 and one in 30 youth ages 13 to 17— experience <a href="https://blog.ssa.gov/homelessness-and-social-security/">homelessness</a> each year. Of those, about 700,000 are unaccompanied minors experiencing homelessness without any family, parent, or guardian. <a href="https://www.chapinhall.org/project/voices-of-youth-count">Nationwide surveys</a> indicate that homelessness affects youth living in rural, suburban, and urban communities at similar rates.</p>
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<p>Bottom line anything gov related is a scam. Gov takes and takes and takes, some with the promise of giving back ie. SSI or Social Security “INSURNACE” that you pay for that they don’t want to pay out. </p>
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<p>They want to slave you to death as they continue to take your money and provide you with lies and false promises.</p>
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<p>Insurance is insurance and if you have proof of disability then it is OWED TO YOU AS YOU PAY FOR IT WITH EVERY SINGLE USELESS DOLLAR YOU EARN AND THAT THEY STEAL</p>
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<p>Please read this urgent information…. Social security is fraud the reason I say that because it’s a common fraudulent practice of theirs to deny someone their benefits in my case my worker case worker did not do anything that she was supposed to and it was a confirmation from her coworker. I reported the agent in writing at the local office in Inglewood California also online no one returned my call or emails that I sent within a year and a half of time. I consistently reported how the doctors that they send you to disability to determination center is a fraudulent center they should go to jail for perjury I’ve had heart surgery I’ve been without work I’ve been disabled for last two and a half years that is taking for my next appeal to come. Ssdi and SSA are all a bunch of liars crooks and they should all be in jail or prison.. the in California the social security office that’s on spruce Street in Los Angeles refuse to sign my complaint with a stamp so she put a date on top with her pen and I didn’t accept it and then the supervisor did not do anything to her for her actions when they had stamps I could have stamped it I went I had to go to another window to get my paperwork stamped after she refused to do it they’re a bunch of crooks hold on to your in my money I worked all my life I’m still not working comes disabled and they still haven’t paid me yet and it’s going on 3 to 4 years</p>
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<p>Every body that is rejected all say the same things you say it’s a fraud legal or not any institution will black ball<br />
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Maybe you need to reevaluate your documentation is your paper tail wide and long enough with document over many years are there many years of documentation from doctors,counseling, physical therapy and psychiatry many years from a cardiologist do your primary doctor agree that you should receive Im confused if you worked all your life why then your not filing for your ssi that you have paid into all your life first. You’re confusing the system now you expect SSDI to pay you.<br />
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Now go back and reexamine and reevaluate your documentation and paper tail start with talking to your primary first if he agrees 100% that you should receive your ssi cause you are or have a permanent disability then you will have a better then 90% chance of winning your case.<br />
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<p>I had a quadruple bypass after a massive heart attack, even coded twice and they brought me back. A year after open heart surgery and I work 40 hours a week. I’m 65 years old. Just because you have had heart surgery, doesn’t mean you can’t work.</p>
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<p>Slthough I believe that no America citizen should be homeless. I do think there is a better way of funding this then taking money from Social Security. SSI is a program to help retired Americas to be able to live out their golden years on some sort of comfort. Over the years I have see the Federal government taking money out of SSI to fund their own policies instead of payment to the pwho paid into people who paid onto this with their own money. This is not a bank account for big government nor should it be taxed by local governments!</p>
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<p>Their not taking money from ssi. Social security insurance funds come from workers and their employers.<br />
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<p>Their not taking money from ssi. Social security insurance funds come from workers and their employers.<br />
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<p>There could be an alternative to using social security funds, another government agency assigned to just this issue comes to mind, tax dollars could cover this. Kids have many needs and a team of people dedicated to this seems prudent.</p>
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<p>I experienced lack of accomodation on my disability being a 30 years experience in my line of work. Being humble and embracing disability, doing all I knew to do to improve disability symptoms did not help me neither. Bottom line not even a low pay job was ever granted to me. Instead at all times faced this comment ” you are over qualified”. So there is no respect towards our need of fulling responsibilities paying bills nor there is any is anyone becomes homeless. Its a very hard subject to discuss. The key is to have a medical care available in order to continue the battle of fighting discrimination against disabilities. To be honest that was one of my biggest issues to tackle, having no insurance and sustaining a long fight to obtain SSID and at the same time not being to sustain a job due to symptoms, pills ect… Then years later once granted health insurance Doctors do not care to help you since they love money so much.. My best advice is to pray YOU NEVER GET to be disabled, to avoid ALL THESE NEVER ENDING BATTLES. I pray they protect the funds supplying SSID so we can live and be responsible towards society requirements.</p>
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<p>As far as I remember in the USA exists still a political system called kapitalism not a communism. A child is not a public responsibility but private responsibility of his or her parents.</p>
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<p>If the children are displaced and the parents have nothing to do with them, then they should be able to get the help that they need. You sound selfish</p>
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<p>Clearly you are one of the lucky ones who has always had a roof over your head. Your gratitude for having had all of your need met throughout your life should allow you the opportunity to do some homework on the situation and maybe help out the community at the same time. why not volunteer at a homeless shelter and get some perspective on the situation. You may learn that some or all of the homeless in your local shelter are locals from your own community. You may even end up helping folks you know.</p>
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<p>Children, no matter where they come from, are a gift from God and it’s every adults responsibility to help and guide these kids so they are taught how to take care of themselves. They need to know how to be a responsible citizen and how to contribute to their society. They have to be shown how to get the education they need and how to do the right things in life. Without these lessons on how to do things the right way and creating a proud responsible citizen, you end up with another angry adult that either neglect’s their own children and teaches them too be angry and mean, or worse, they end up dead because they had to trust the wrong people. No child in America should have to worry about who they can trust but because the world is cruel they do. Instead of being so judgmental and bitter about having to help others, we all need to help and remember that children are like a garden, the more work that’s put into them, the more successful they are. The truth is that most of the people that do bad things in the world were children once that either weren’t taught the right thing from the adults in their life or worse, they didn’t have any adults in their life. That’s why it’s so important to teach children right from wrong. Unfortunately in this free country anyone can have children whether they should be allowed to or not. So if we as Americans truly believe in freedom, then it’s all of our jobs to help our children no matter where they came from. It’s not just our duty because it’s the right thing to do, God commands that we help. We ALL need to remember that one of the commandments is thou shalt not judge. If every American would remember just this one commandment we wouldn’t be so divided in this country today. Our differences in this country is what makes us the greatest country in the world. That’s also what makes us the strongest country in the world. So we need to quit hating each other because we are different and realize that’s what makes us greater. That’s our strength because that’s how God intended things to be. Humanity will determine whether we destroy the world or quit being greedy for wealth and power and learn to live in peace and work together. It’s up to us to make sure there is a future by doing the right things.</p>
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