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Rochester woman admits to hiding boyfriend’s body, claiming social security benefits
(www.rochesterfirst.com)
maybe it's time for Basic Income
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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The easiest solution would be to do a UBI tied to a COLA of some sort to fend off inflation and then ditch all the other entitlement programs to simplify things. Anyone making more than UBI would have to pay a tax. I don't even want to go down that rabbit hole of what can fix our busted tax system. Let anyone who has paid into Social Security still be entitled to their benefits and UBI would be added if there is a negative difference with Social Security.
I dunno, these are just ideas I think of when I'm trying to sleep at night, I have no clue if they're even remotely feasible to do in this country with prices and incomes varying so widely in every part of the country.
All I know is what I had to go through to get SSDI and I discovered the social safety net is really just you free-falling through hoops on fire hoping you land on the tiny speck of an inflatable bouncy house on the ground that also has a slow leak in it and may or may not stay inflated to brace your fall. And you have to repeat that for each program you need to apply to for benefits. Oh and you get to free fall every year to 5 years depending on the benefit, but instead you're free falling from half the distance with less hoops on fire but the inflatable bouncy house still has a leak. Oh and if you happen to make it through and be protected by the bouncy house, don't even think about saving money for a parachute next time because you could lose some benefits or have them cut.
Anything is better than the broken system we have now.
I'm disgusted that he was getting less than $1000 a month. We all pay so much for such little return, and then we have to fight to get it!
Contrary to what the media tells us, those of us solely relying on SS retirement or SSDI/SSI are at or below poverty level. I’m on SSDI and am not making much more
Meanwhile, Elon steals billions of dollars through problematic subsidies.
Rookie mistake.
Never commit $1000 frauds, you'll get caught and jailed. Better commit billion dollar frauds, you'll just get told to not do that again and you might be able to keep part of the money
Wow, three months of hunting down fraud and they finally found a single person taking social security fraudulently
Exactly my thought too
in this economy, can you blame her? /s
Man if you’re gonna kill someone, do it for more than $8,000.
Who said she killed him?
Fair enough, I misread.