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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:17 PM Jul 2020

Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

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Are you better off than you were 4 years ago? (Original Post) magicguido Jul 2020 OP

No-- facing a layoff, worried about my kids' jobs, afraid to meet friends- dawg day Jul 2020 #1

Except the yearly small increase of my SSDI my income has not changed yet I can afford less. Doreen Jul 2020 #2

dawg day

(7,947 posts)

1. No-- facing a layoff, worried about my kids' jobs, afraid to meet friends-

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2020, 01:37 PM

Jul 2020

Afraid of going to the grocery store!
Checking my temp and oxygen levels twice a day.
IRA down 20%.
4 years ago, I was able to save enough money to take a vacation to Europe every year. Now I have to save in case I'm laid off in the next few months, and anyway, Americans aren't allowed in Europe.

Or Japan, or Australia, or anywhere practically.

Doreen

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2. Except the yearly small increase of my SSDI my income has not changed yet I can afford less.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Thu Jul 30, 2020, 02:22 PM

Jul 2020

I wake up every day wondering if I am going to get a letter telling me that I am being evicted because low income housing is no longer available and I will never be able to afford the jacked up rent.

I wonder if this will be the day I will find that letter telling me I will no longer be getting SSDI or anything like that.

My health insurance did get better but that is because the ACA was still getting better. I do wake up however wondering if this will be the day I get that letter telling me it has been cut off.

I feel fear and heartache every day for all of us.

It was not like this the previous 8 years and even the other republican administrations were not this bad.

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