Discrimination At Its Finest

Chelsea Howe
Sep 3, 2018 · 2 min read

For those of you that receive public assistance or have in the past you will enjoy this one. When you try to get something accomplished with DHS you get constant push back. Well my most recent experience takes the cake.

I had to send in my recertification. Yes, I am poor so what. I am mentally disabled and the process to get SSD is horrible. Anyways, I for some reason need to give pay stubs when they just verified 1.5 months ago my income and the income had become less not more. Well, that seems like a difficult concept for people to grasp.

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I am a mother, wife, advocate for the mental health community and a survivor of the horrors of mental illness. I'm here to tell about life.

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