ptsd Retro Compensation Food Stamps

[cachanilla73]

Hello everyone, I have been away working hard in getting My husband claims, HE WON IT!!! for fibromyalgia, it was a LONG LONG fight. He got 40% for a total combined 70%..... My question i this....... we have been receiving food stamps since last year.... at the time he was employed but missing several days of work due to fibro.. we have to file the periodic report before this month ends but we just got the retro money ... we DON'T WANT to receive anymore foodstamps... he is currently on leave without pay since a few months ago by order of his Psychiatrist. we NEVER applied for an increased on food stamps or welfare or other benefits when he went on leave without pay..

Now the million dollar question, does he has to repay the food stamps? even when we didn't get the money on those months??..... he suffers sever chronic severe PTSD and he is now worried he will loose the money we just got .... now he is having an episode of severe ptsd....

thanks for your help!!

Edited July 28, 2010 by cachanilla73

[brokensoldier244th]

KIM, too that even with your windfall you may still qualify. Its not like you are going to make more money all the time, magically, now. Even if you invest it you aren't going to make enough off the interest (probably not, anyway....) to do much good, unless it was a huge amount. My family is 6 total, so I know what it takes to wing that and we are pretty frugal-she only works P/T so we can avoid daycare and I am lucky to have a job driving my brain around a computer server so I dont have to move or lift or anything.

If you are still eligible, take them.

if with 6 people your income does not exceed the limits the federal and state govts have set for food stamps and you still qualify for them TAKE them you are entitled to them there are many active duty troops who get food stamps because their paychecks are not enough to properly feed their families

you are not ABUSING the system to take a benefit every other American can and do take if you weren't entitled to them they would cut you off they may not give your family as many as they were before your husbands VA claim was adjusted higher but heck every dollar you are entitled to in food stamps gives you another dollar to buy the kids clothes, school supplies etc maybe even a family night out at the movies

theres nothing wrong in taking a govt benefit that is LEGAL ask him to reconsider he is only hurting the entire family why? doesn't he like you and want the best for you?

Pride is an admirable trait but it doesn't put food on the table