Every time the topic of blind people seeking employment comes up in relevant fora, the Brits express similar sentiments to diegocaleiro: “soul-sucking work for money/status you won’t ever have time to spend? Why?”
In the US, SSI for a disabled individual living alone is a little over $700, but one is not allowed to possess more than $2000 in resources at any given time (residence and a single vehicle for transportation are not counted as resources). All of that is the best case, of course; fail to properly report anything, wind up with $2k in your bank account(s) at any point (this even happened once when my SSI had stopped for a couple months, then they tried to backpay it all at once when it restarted), or try to cheat the system (and fail), and the social security administration will require you pay for it (they can withhold up to 10% of SSI to pay on these bills).
For me, I went to an expensive college before shattering my naive idealistic overly optimistic worldview, and the only real way to defer my loan payments to the point where SSI is anything but a parachute into oblivion is to go back to school, or wind up with a job that pays at least $15k/year (one or two loans can be reduced based on income (or lack there of), but it takes either continuing education or a job to get out of the negative in my case).
Every time the topic of blind people seeking employment comes up in relevant fora, the Brits express similar sentiments to diegocaleiro: “soul-sucking work for money/status you won’t ever have time to spend? Why?”
In the US, SSI for a disabled individual living alone is a little over $700, but one is not allowed to possess more than $2000 in resources at any given time (residence and a single vehicle for transportation are not counted as resources). All of that is the best case, of course; fail to properly report anything, wind up with $2k in your bank account(s) at any point (this even happened once when my SSI had stopped for a couple months, then they tried to backpay it all at once when it restarted), or try to cheat the system (and fail), and the social security administration will require you pay for it (they can withhold up to 10% of SSI to pay on these bills).
For me, I went to an expensive college before shattering my naive idealistic overly optimistic worldview, and the only real way to defer my loan payments to the point where SSI is anything but a parachute into oblivion is to go back to school, or wind up with a job that pays at least $15k/year (one or two loans can be reduced based on income (or lack there of), but it takes either continuing education or a job to get out of the negative in my case).