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[QUOTE="Cheriehoop, post: 4141499, member: 127"]
It’s stuff like this that encourages honest people to lie and cheat the system. When I was a young one before graduating from college, I worked for the Dept of Social Services and like SWC I had to recertify clients for continued eligibility. Back then SWC’s SSI dept was under the county not the feds and Social Security. An elderly woman who had breast cancer came in for recertification. One of the questions was to declare ‘cash currently on hand’ with the description being money you had on your person or in your home. That poor woman took out this weathered tiny leather change purse and counted out a few bills and some loose change that totaled something like $9.47 and wrote the amount on the application. She even asked if she had to enter the value of the bus tokens in her change purse.  I was crushed. She was immediately per law disqualified from any assistance at all and had to wait a strict period of time before she could even reapply.  I knew if I told her to lie or change it so she stayed qualified, she would have sung my praises to everyone she met and I’d be in big trouble besides probably losing the cruddy job. Most people lied - the honest people who feared doing wrong were punished. Will never forget how horrible I felt as she cried telling me she didn’t blame me but if I knew anything she could do because without the aid she’d lose her apartment. She wasn’t the only person who cried that day. :(
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