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cinammonkisses
03-24-2007, 11:12 AM
Wow...I wouldn't even know where to go for any welfare or handouts here in the states. Students do not receive random government assistance. There are grants, loans, scholarships, work-study, etc....
Actually, I know quite a few college kids who have applied for government assistance and got it. Food stamps, section 8 etc.
Krazyjane
03-24-2007, 11:19 AM
Actually, I know quite a few college kids who have applied for government assistance and got it. Food stamps, section 8 etc.
Do tell! Please!
The FAFSA screwed me over this year. Even though I claimed independency on my taxes, the FAFSA considers me dependent. I'm not getting the Pell Grant this year. I've been getting it for years without a problem! I've applied to scholarships, but this is a major blow. Nursing school is hectic and is currently not leaving me time to work. I recently succumbed to taking out a loan to pay my rent and groceries.
TheSexKitten
03-24-2007, 11:23 AM
Yeah the only welfare I can think of for able bodied young people would be I guess... unemployment, and SSI due to disabled parents. You're supposed to get the SSI until age 21 as long as you're in school full-time and don't make over $1000 a month.
But that's it as far as I know.
Oops two posts happened while I was typing!
flickad
03-24-2007, 06:59 PM
Wow...I wouldn't even know where to go for any welfare or handouts here in the states. Students do not receive random government assistance. There are grants, loans, scholarships, work-study, etc....
As far as I see, being a single, childless, causasian able-bodies female, they would laugh me out of any welfare office and snicker at any request for "underemployment" benefits.
But hey, as I see from the other able-bodies females here, if its offered, take it. How does that translate into your taxes? Are they significantly higher here?
Income tax is extracted on a sliding scale depending on income and in my view is not overly burdonesome. There's a higher 'sin tax' on many things here than in the US though. Cigarettes, for example, are taxed so heavily that they're almost double the American price.
flickad
03-24-2007, 07:01 PM
Yeah the only welfare I can think of for able bodied young people would be I guess... unemployment, and SSI due to disabled parents. You're supposed to get the SSI until age 21 as long as you're in school full-time and don't make over $1000 a month.
But that's it as far as I know.
Oops two posts happened while I was typing!
Well, Newstart in Australia is an unemployment benefit. The difference between here and the US is that the unemployment payment in the US is only available for three months.
You can't just get it for being 'underemployed' either. You have to be earning a ridiculously low amount per fortnight to qualify for it (generally under $65).
GoldCoastGirl
03-24-2007, 09:16 PM
If you are on The Dole full time you can opt to pay tax or not yet generally the payments you earn on The Dole aren't enough to really be taxed upon anyway.
Plus you have to earn over that $65 for two weeks consecutively (sp?) before Centrelink will cut you off. Thus if you work hours (and income) increased one week yet went back down the next you would be still be on benefits.
TheSexKitten
03-24-2007, 10:04 PM
You have to be earning a ridiculously low amount per fortnight to qualify for it (generally under $65).
That makes sense. :P
hockeybobby
05-02-2009, 03:15 PM
Desiring to correct a grievous wrong that is highly correctable, is not guilt....it is human kindness.
TarsTone
05-04-2009, 02:34 AM
^ I don't think anyone here said anything against "the desire to help". What's being criticized is the method by which it's been done. A method that in the long run has done more harm than good and exacerbated the existing problems.
There is nothing noble about supporting misguided policies that hurt the people they are supposed to be helping, just because we think the intention is good.
TravelandStrip
05-22-2009, 01:37 AM
There have been alot of threads recently about how black women are discriminated in the US but I was wondering how it was in Australia. I have been wanting to go on vacation there and I was wondering how it is there race wise, not just in the club but out of the club too. Also what are the best places to go during vacation? If anyone could give me some inside that would be awesome.
I am multicultural myself, naturally brown-skinned, from the South. I lived in Aus for 6 months and I never had a problem at all! Everyone there was super nice to me... I'd probably rather go through the outback then through rural towns in the South. That's just me though.
I can recommend some good spots to go, but it depends on what you like... cold weather? beaches? PM me if you like 8)
AkashaM
05-23-2009, 04:44 PM
The OP postd this in 2007, FYI.
Most of th ppl who rsponded dont post anymor