My friend “Jane” has 3 kids and an ass hole husband who doesn’t live in the same state as her. (he is at the moment but he has only lived with her for 4 weeks in 2 years so far). So she obviously needs help financially, so she goes to the state and asks for help with daycare, they then tell her that before they do that she needs to file for child support against her husband. She does (but he doesn’t pay) and she gets daycare help. So instead of paying almost $2,000.00 a month for daycare she pays $200. This is great, because she needs to work to support her family, which she takes care of by herself. So tax season rolls around and she claims two of her kids and her husband claims the other one and she then gets his refund because he doesn’t pay child support. I know that she could use this, as long as she doesn’t blow it on shopping, so it’s good. It’s important to know that when you are filing your taxes the govnt. only counts up to $3000 for your daycare refund (you don’t get all of this back, just a %) so “Jane” paid $2400 in daycare bills last year for her 3 kids, I paid almost $8000 for Tyler. “Jane” gets around $700 back from the gvnt and I get $800. So that 5-6 thousand extra bucks that I spent on ty I get $100 extra back. This is very screwy to me. I make about $200 a month “too much” to qualify for daycare, and because of this I have to pay $400.00 a month more then I would if I had help from the state. (although I would pay it all myself anyways).
*note* the next part is about welfare, I have nothing against it, as I was on it for a couple months, but it is about the people who abuse it. This does not apply to you “Jane”.
I have a major problem with people who abuse the welfare system, I think it is especially bad in Arizona because of all of the illegal’s. But just ignoring the illegal thing, there are a ton of lazy people who abuse the system. I think welfare is a great thing if you need it, it saved my life after I had Ty, but I know that nobody can rely on it forever. I don’t like that people go to the DES office and sign up for food stamps, monthly bill help (I forgot what it’s called but the govnt just sends you a check every month), daycare help, and insurance. You can literally go to the doc/hospital whenever you want just because you have a cough and you don’t have to pay a penny for it. Then you can head over to the grocery store and spend 500 bucks for groceries and not having to worry about clipping coupons, because it’s free to you. All the mean time your kids are in daycare (so you don’t have to watch them) because you don’t have to pay for it and the state is sending you a check every month for the 4 hours a week you work at Mc Donald’s. Then tax season rolls around and you only made a couple thousand at your job and you have a bazillion kids so the govnt sends you a check for 4-6 grand. I really think that our state and govnt. needs to do a better job at investigating who we are giving our money to; it really makes me sad to see it wasted on people like this. We need to give it to people who deserve it, like “Jane” who is a single mom of 3 but works 40 hrs a week at a good job.
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I totally agree with you. Especially since I'm stuck where I'm at. If I make anymore money I will lose my daycare assitance totally, but then my daycare will cost more than I make in a week, so i might as well not work and get what I can right? It shouldn't be right, but thats how it works. I think you should run for some typre of office. I would vote for you, even though you're a democrat.
Wow Beth you know so much about stuff I don't know anything about! I wish I could step in your shoes just for a day. You seem so heroic to me. You probably don't hear this very often, but I'm really jealous of you. You seem like you have it all together. I feel like I'm still waiting for my life to start.
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