My friend's mom is 80 and lives by herself in LA and receives Social Security Income of around $700/mth. She's technically married but has been separated from her husband for more than 10 years and they are not in touch. Her rent is $900/mth so the grown children who can barely help themselves pitch in a few hundred every month in cash to help her make rent and buy food. Recently she was audited and because she doesn't speak English, the social security officer has been giving her a terrible time. She just got a letter about her SSI getting canceled and the cause is likely due to the fact that the apartment she lives in has a new policy to accept only checks as payment, so she asked her friend to write her rent checks in exchange for cash (since her only income in the bank is from SSI, there isn't enough cash in the bank to write a rent check).
It sounds to me that this is the kind of people SSI is supposed to help given that she's 80, alone, doesn't speak English, cannot work, and does not have sufficient assistance from her children. What should she do? What's missing here?
Submitted November 12, 2017 at 02:27AM by COO0OOKIE http://ift.tt/2ys6Cx3
