Wanna hear something crazy? My daughter loses her food stamps if she takes more

[Tucker]

If you're taking 18 hours a semester, that means you attend class for 18 hours a week every week of the semester.

Sounds like you took a condensed course. I had several of those during summer school. With me, it was usually a 3 hour course, but you met 3 days a week for 3 hours at a time.

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This.

16 credit hours were equal to 16 class time per week unless I took an accelerated course in the summer. Twice the class time in half the weeks

[jtyangel]

Well my guess on why that restriction is in place is because pell grant requires you take AT LEAST 6 credits to get any assistance, but full grants are usually given for a full courseload ie 12 credits. If food stamps say you can't take more then 5 then I would guess that the state they live in seeks to limit how much assistance is coming in from all sources. Perhaps too it has something to do with living in the same household with someone else receiving assistance? Here is an idea, if the mooch mom got off the assistance perhaps the daughter can use the help to do better for herself, although I'd like to know why a college student living at home and going to school full time should be seeking food stamps anyway? Part of mom taking the tax credit is that she is supporting the grown child while they are a full time student. I wonder if mom had her go for assistance as her form of 'rent' supplied by the state.

I don't begrudge anyone looking for a little help to get on with their lives, but some circumstances I just don't understand it. Lifelong too I don't understand that unless one has a grave injury, sickness(dialysis, cancer, heart failure), or is permanently disabled as in Down's/Autism(the severe type, not asperger's)/mental retardation.

Also what is with having one's own dwelling? When i was in my 20's I could not afford my own place. I always looked for roommate situations which let me live in my means AND have some flexibility as a young professional. Why do they need their own damn apartment when you can room in a perfectly nice home in a solid suburb for 400 a month plus some utilities--probably less for the type of shitholes they are used to living in? Most of these people don't have kids either and won't do this. I just don't get it.

[Ballygrl]

Food stamps for college students? seriously? what happened to college students living on ramen noodles? This is really getting outrageous the number of people dependant on Government.

[Gina]

Food stamps for college students? seriously? what happened to college students living on ramen noodles? This is really getting outrageous the number of people dependant on Government.

And it's really scary to see how they go into hysterics the minute any talk is spoken about reducing benefits.  Man!  They are sucking this country into a black hole.

[jukin]

Food stamps for college students? seriously? what happened to college students living on ramen noodles? This is really getting outrageous the number of people dependant on Government.

I put myself through college and never even thought about getting on food stamps. Although my part time drafting job probably put me above the limit. I didn't know any student that had food stamps. Different times in just 30 years. I guess this is the fundamentally changed America that Obama promised he would deliver. Just goes to show you that anybody can radically destroy something in short order.

[Dori]

Even if she carried 12 credits, wouldn't she still have plenty of time to work 20 hours and get off the food stamps?


Guess I'm not understanding this whole thing.

 


 

[hillneck]

Even if she carried 12 credits, wouldn't she still have plenty of time to work 20 hours and get off the food stamps?


Guess I'm not understanding this whole thing.

You're trying to make sense out of DUmmie logic.  It will drive a sane person crazy.

 


 

[debk]

Even if she carried 12 credits, wouldn't she still have plenty of time to work 20 hours and get off the food stamps?


Guess I'm not understanding this whole thing.

I went to college from 9/70 to 5/74, when I got my BA.

Trashed my first semester, had to make up for it by taking 18hrs per semester for 6 semesters. No summer school, had to work, and my dad said if I was so stupid to screw up a college education, I could either figure out a way to finish without summer school or not finish...and I only had 4 years to get it done. ( I think my little brother spent about 7 yrs going through to get his engineering degree  )

Worked all but 3 semesters (freshman yr and 2nd semester of jr yr because of an overwhelming class schedule - but helped a friend clean houses to make spending money), a minimum of 20 hours per week.  I, who detest mornings with a passion, was in the dorm cafeteria at 5am on Saturday mornings, because that was when I was scheduled to work. I worked more when I went to work at the campus bookstore. 

Paid every dime of it myself, from a small life insurance trust fund I had because my mother was killed in a car accident. No scholarship because my dad & stepmother wouldn't fill out the forms. I got SS and VA money, but checks were made out to step momma and she kept all of it until my Sr year, when the VA made the check out to me.(she was really pissed)....it was $43 per month.

It never would have occured to me to try to get Food Stamps, or any other type of assistance.

[Karin]

Like everyone else, we were poor as churchmice during the college years.  Of course we worked throughout them.  Now, foodstamps were not an option anyway, because my husband was an immigrant, and you had to sign shit saying you would never apply for public assistance.  With a co-signer guaranteeing that (my mom). 
You make do. 

Times have changed.

[NHSparky]

When I was in school, for the most part 1 credt per 1 hour of class time,  except for required PE classes which were 3 hours class time = 1 hour credit. That was a long time ago.

My son's in school and most of his are 1 credit = 1 hour class time.

That's true for the most part: while it's 3 hours lab for 1 credit hour or 1 class hour per credit hour PER WEEK, when I was going to college it was pretty much expected that you were doing 2-3 hours work OUTSIDE of class for every hour in class.  Meaning guys like me who were taking 18-20 hours a semester (and that was most of us) had no friggin lives.

[Celtic Rose]

SNAP qualifications for college students:

If you are in college more than half-time, you may qualify for SNAP if you meet any one of the conditions below:

You receive (any amount of )federal or state work-study monies,
You work for pay for 20 hours or more per week,
You care for a child under the age of 12 (further rules apply) or you get TAFDC,
You participate in a SNAP or other ‘employment and training program’,
You attend a community college and are enrolled in a credit degree or certificate program that the college determines will increase your employability,
You are age 50 or older, or you are under age 18, OR
You have a temporary or permanent physical and/or mental impairment.

Though, according to federal law, if the daughter is still living at home, they cannot both college food stamps.  They have to apply together as a family unit.

[DefiantSix]

That's true for the most part: while it's 3 hours lab for 1 credit hour or 1 class hour per credit hour PER WEEK, when I was going to college it was pretty much expected that you were doing 2-3 hours work OUTSIDE of class for every hour in class.  Meaning guys like me who were taking 18-20 hours a semester (and that was most of us) had no friggin lives.

I remember those days. Back when I was getting my degree on the night school plan.

[jtyangel]

Even if she carried 12 credits, wouldn't she still have plenty of time to work 20 hours and get off the food stamps?


Guess I'm not understanding this whole thing.

 


 

I'm doing 12 this semester(and likely the next 3) and I work fulltime and have 3 kids. It can be done. It's not fun, but it can be done. I just don't get how anyone without children, college age, living with their parent needs foodstamps. 

[jtyangel]

SNAP qualifications for college students:

If you are in college more than half-time, you may qualify for SNAP if you meet any one of the conditions below:

You receive (any amount of )federal or state work-study monies,
You work for pay for 20 hours or more per week,
You care for a child under the age of 12 (further rules apply) or you get TAFDC,
You participate in a SNAP or other ‘employment and training program’,
You attend a community college and are enrolled in a credit degree or certificate program that the college determines will increase your employability,
You are age 50 or older, or you are under age 18, OR
You have a temporary or permanent physical and/or mental impairment.

Though, according to federal law, if the daughter is still living at home, they cannot both college food stamps.  They have to apply together as a family unit.

Ahh, so it's as I thought: the lifetime moocher mom is really the issue but she won't point that out. Not that a college student who lives with their parents should have any need for assistance to begin with. Friends of mine who lived at home usually helped pay some expenses at the house. Usually it was rent and parents would continue including them in meals or with groceries within reason for room and board while going to school. There was no need for food stamps. something tells me mooching mom thought this would be a great way for her to contribute. In the same vein she lived her life, the daughter could avoid actually paying for anything out of pocket to mom and could just provide SNAP provided by the government. Absolutely pathetic.

[thundley4]

SNAP qualifications for college students:

If you are in college more than half-time, you may qualify for SNAP if you meet any one of the conditions below:

You receive (any amount of )federal or state work-study monies, no
You work for pay for 20 hours or more per week,I work 36 plus ot
You care for a child under the age of 12 (further rules apply) or you get TAFDC,Does my dog count?
You participate in a SNAP or other ‘employment and training program’,No
You attend a community college and are enrolled in a credit degree or certificate program that the college determines will increase your employability,I could swing that
You are age 50 or older, or you are under age 18, OR I'm 52
You have a temporary or permanent physical and/or mental impairment. Depends on who you ask.

Though, according to federal law, if the daughter is still living at home, they cannot both college food stamps.  They have to apply together as a family unit.

So, if I decide to take enough classes at the local community college, I can get SNAP?

[Chris_]

So, if I decide to take enough classes at the local community college, I can get SNAP?

Of course.

President Food Stamp has your back.  Maybe not those guys backs in Benghazi, but yours definitely.


You are a registered Democrat, right?

[thundley4]

Of course.

President Food Stamp has your back.  Maybe not those guys backs in Benghazi, but yours definitely.


You are a registered Democrat, right?

If that's also a requirement, then I'm out of luck.