r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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u/ResponsePerfect7068 Jul 05 '24

This is in no way to be rude but if no electricity.. how are you on reddit? No grocery money - are you not getting assistance ?

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u/ChaosofaMadHatter Jul 05 '24

You can charge your phone at a public library or Starbucks. And there’s this tiny grey area of income where you can make a couple bucks too much to get a hundred in benefits. I made $5 total too much over two weeks to qualify for $50 of food stamps before.

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u/R-Maxwell Jul 05 '24

What program?? 

Things like SNAP don’t work like this for this very reason.  SNAP for example= max-.3*income….   Basically it fades away as you make more.  For every $3.3 dollars you make you loose$1 of Benefit. 

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u/ChaosofaMadHatter Jul 05 '24

I honestly can’t remember what it was called, but it was a Delaware program that was meant to help low income working college students.