Omg the most embarrassing thing just happened to me…

[quote]And on the envelope it says SNAP by the address!!!!

Um, no, it doesn't.

OP, thing about matters like this as RuPaul does, who says, “What other people think of me is none of my business.”

R1 ummm yes it does. Don’t comment without knowing. Jesus.

You poor thing. Your life is over.

Well, mine arrived last week in a non-descript envelope the SNAP representative said they used to prevent theft.

Your father applying makes no sense to me. You applying makes no sense to me.

You are going to have to move.

R6 if we somehow got approved we would let them use the card.

Wow. Same shit happened to me. I would blush, but....

Face it, OP is a criminal.

In NY you can get EBT regardless of your net worth. Only income counts. It says so right on their website. In practice, if you are very wealthy you probably have investments throwing off income. But there are plenty of people who are just so-so wealthy with retirement savings shielded in IRAs (so returns, dividends, interest, etc. not counted as income) and who have significant equity in properties they own.

[quote] What if I have savings?

[quote] Most households applying for SNAP no longer have to pass a savings/resource test in order to get SNAP benefits. This means that the household's assets (stocks, savings and retirement accounts, etc.) are not considered when determining eligibility.

Similar for Medicaid, but I think they do, at least technically, have some asset tests. Not sure though. And unemployment counts as income.

I hope that the doorman pointed out the SNAP return address to each of the other residents of OP's very posh building as they returned and collected their own mail.

You’re ruined. Doorman gossip amongst each other. No point moving. The new staff will know.

Ghastly, OP. Just ghastly.

It sounds ghastly!

SO! My Doorman Thinks I'm On SNAP...

Before or after you stepped on the ping pong ball, Gloria?

I swear, everyone in NY, LA, Chicago and Detroit has a crackhead uncle or cousin. Weird.

My Uncle is an accountant.

Who even knows what snap is? You’re fine.

R19 3 out of my 4 uncles are successful. Well 2 now that the 1 got laid off for a while.

1 is a coke head and drinker. He doesn’t do heroine or anything but lots and lots of cocaine. Idk how he’s still alive.

^^ See??

Anyone stupid enough to apply for public assistance benefits just to "prove" something to an addict is too damn stupid to afford to live in a building with a doorman.

Cliff Notes version, please.

I know a girl who applied for EBT when she didn't need it......AND THEN SHE DIED!

OP Ewwdwin having an obese tik tok obsessed moonfaced jiggly tittied troll for a nephew is even more embarrassing.

TL;DR

OP = kookoo

Why the fuck would you apply for a social program you knew you were going to be turned down for?

To prove to your dirt-bag relatives that....?

R29 that there’s nothing else I can do for them.

Riding up the elevator, I couldn't help but wonder, if the doorman thinks I'm on SNAP, does that mean he will never want to fuck me?

Today was MLK Day, no mail delivery. So . . ..

R32 well i got it today because someone else had it in their mailbox and left it with the doorman who left it by the mailbox. Maybe they just checked their mail today after a few days.

R33,

On the bright side, OP’s doorman won’t feel bad next Christmas when OP doesn’t give him a card.

OP won't forget the doorman at Christmas. It won't be the Atlantis cruise the doorman is hoping for, but I'm sure he'll be just as happy with a food gift or a case of baby formula.

Isn’t this benefit fraud?

R36 I was denied so no.

Gurl, I opened a package a few months ago that had women’s crotch less panties in it. It was intended for my neighbor, but got delivered to my house. I didn’t even look at the name on the package, and opened it. I felt like an idiot bringing it to her house.

A single man with no dependents stands almost no chance of receiving benefits. Even if he was homeless and living in his car, it's next to impossible for him to qualify. At least that's how it is in Texas.

I’m confused. Your father and you applied for benefits to prove to your two uncles and grandmother that you would be denied. But you were going to let the addict relative use the card that you or your father might have been issued if your claim was successful. AND you used your address? It’s no crime to help someone apply for benefits but this sounds like textbook fraud.

Social embarrassment will seem like a breeze if the Feds come a-knockin’.

The feds aren’t coming to knock on someone DECLINED.

It’s an expression. But I still wouldn’t toy with making fraudulent claims to make a point to anyone.

Don't commit fraud you fool

It’s not a fraudulent claim unless you lie. Applying when you are ineligible is not fraud.

The claim wasn’t fraudulent. I applied and was honest with all my info. Hence them saying no to me. Who would spend the money is irrelevant during the application process.

OP is Hyacinth Bucket

The doorman thinks you are poor, how devastating!

If you live in such a nice building, help your poor relations buy food instead of waiting for the system to feed them.

R48 I have. But the pandemic hurt my bank account too. I’m working again but need to take care of myself too.

If you are a man without a prison record between the ages18 and 65, you are the undeserving poor.

You will have to work closely with former employers to document unemployment and reasons for termination. Even if their covid response was "steam your N95 masks" and "use clorex wipes!"

"I didn't want to die from covid" was useless last year when I applied. My former employer did not submit any of my records. I didn't get unemployment, food stamps, or rental assistance.

Since I got a job in September, I've paid down 6 months past-due rent. I still have to catch up on the remaining 3 months and it hurts.

My income was 3 grand too high for rental assistance.

The doorman may offer you $10 to give him a blowjob. That's how these things usually play out.

There's only one reasonable solution. You will have to take to the rails as a hobo, fleeing your shame, but knowing that sooner or later, in every town, the truth will catch up to you.

SNAP whore!

[quote]If you live in such a nice building, help your poor relations buy food instead of waiting for the system to feed them.

"The best thing you can do for 'poor' folks is not be one of them." -- My great-grandmother, RIP

That's to say, if you keep spending money on someone, they'll get "comfortable" and eventually "expect it." Next thing you know, when things are tight for YOU and you have to tell them you can't help them for a while until you help yourself, bring on the "you're selfish, heartless" and "how could you?" guilt trips. They've built a sense of entitlement for YOUR hard-earned money before you even realized it. Sometimes, you have to teach people how to help themselves.

OP- It's not like you got locked out of your apartment COMPLETELY NAKED and the doorman now knows what every square inch of you looks like NAKED.

THAT would be the most embarrassing thing to happen to a person.

The OP doesn’t think about our tax dollars being used to pay some city employee to review his frivolous application. It’s like calling 911 for no reason. The OP should be fined.

[quote]So my father decided to apply (knowing he would get denied) just to show them he tried because they keep bitching how no one will help and they’re struggling (not true though, my father is paying some of their bills to help and I sent some money more than once).

They never asked you or your father to get EBT for yourselves. There was no need for either of you to pull your stupid stunt.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're lying, I absolutely believe you and your father are stupid assholes who thought that showing your poor relatives "hey, look, WE make too much money to get an EBT card for ourselves!" would be a great idea.

You should have used the energy you put into applying for EBT into finding resources to make sure all your relatives could get EBT, since some were turned down.

This also happened to me.