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Originally Posted by sjp_fanatic
I used to balance my checkbook once a week, but I don't use one anymore! 
Why do they all want to have your brothers' name on your account? Is it a kind of like "just incase" type thing that if you got sick (incompasitated, ie shunt problems) and needed money for something he'll be a back-up. (If that is the only reason, that "sort of" makes sense. (I am NOT on your parents side with this, but in a twisted small way, it "sort of" makes sense. (That is someone being able to be there to access money you need if you get slammed with a catastrophic shunt issue. (I don't know. ) (Maybe that is why it happened to me, you know, a "just in case" scenario-type thing.) |
I think at least part of it is a "just in case" issue. I'm sure that the other
part is, well, you know...
Oh, yeah, about the cigarette taxes: my mother buys her cigarettes in
Delaware, because it's a tax-free state.
What Social Security should do is base the amount of money a person
gets on the expenses they have. Show me one person who can afford
a house, food and clothing on a little over $600 a month! I can't even
afford the Medicare Part B deductible, which is why I'm still on my father's
insurance. At the very least, Social Security should work with low income
individuals to help them get into affordable housing programs. The way
I see it, Social Security fails to understand that medical conditions cost
money...
beyond the so-called "cost of living".