lol Jana !

A few comments from that article really hit home and apply to us........

"Families living in the urban Northeast tend to have the highest child-rearing expenses"
"housing is the single largest expense, averaging about $70,500, or 30 percent of the total cost"



I was just REALLY frustrated that the form didn't account for, and the SSA worker didn't 'get' that because the total amount paid during that time period included a large backpay amount, it was paid during one year, but wasn't meant to be spent on their care JUST for that year. They had expenses for several years prior that I owed for.

If she had just listened to me from the start, it would have gone so much smoother. She was very dismissive and kept cutting me off. More interested in her agenda than finding out what my questions/issues were and trying to help with that. I hope that she was just having a bad day......otherwise I feel really bad for the really compromised disabled folks who use that office to try to get help.

I was having a decent pain day before I got there. The stress of what happened obviously still bothered me after the fact, hence my 'venting' post. It just shouldn't be that complicated. I shudder to think how things would have gone if I was having a bad pain day and couldn't coherently get my point accross and concentrate on getting answers.

Oh well.....it's over and done with now !