[Nfbc-info] Questions Re: NFBC v Target Settlement Checks

Michael Peterson its_mike at sbcglobal.net
Mon Jun 15 09:38:30 UTC 2009


    Hi chuck.
First thanks for the great housing reccomendations I will check out the 
sources you suggested.
 although most of my income is SSDI Terra and I get about $480 combined SSI, 
Several friends in VR have told me I need to do a PASS plan which would 
protect us from SSI Overpayment and allow me to me to win scholarships 
without a negative impact.
Problem isI need to move to a city  to do my internships I don't have time 
to wait for a plan to be put in to place.Graduation is scheduled for June 
2010 and I need 600 hours!
The target settlement therefore was God sent my true, "ticket to work".
Any ideas?
I would like to do what your doing pay down high interest cards and would if 
I didn't need to move and pay higher rent.
Any suggestions appreciated and, if anyone knows what to put in and what to 
leave out of a pass that's appreciated too I have the form and for example I 
have some things I had to buy with a credit card like my desktop computer 
which was an emergency purchase so I could compleete a class and the laptop 
computer which I use because for my practium classes I have to do 20 minute 
videos also it affords portability if needed when we can't be near the 
desktop.
Although those aren't outright paid for I did have to purchase them after 
beginning graduate work because the VR counselor I currently have acts very 
slowly and my 3.9 GPA would most likely be much lower if I waited for himm 
to move towards getting stuff done.  One really good example, Because my 
schooling is done online my DSL is like transportation. The counselor 
finally agreed in January and ask for copies of my phone bill but still 
after sending them a second time no reimbursement.
  In fact I have readers since beginning grad school and not one has ever 
got paid we're trying to get pay for my current one now.
It's tedious because unlike the old days when the reader worked for me 
he/she has to work directly for the VR and go through the counselor 
presenting driver's license social security card and it's more red tape
I wish they would just give me 50 hours a month or whatever and let my 
readers fill in the formI sign and authorize and it's done.
Not that way anymore though.

Thanks:
        Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ckrugman at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbc-info] Questions Re: NFBC v Target Settlement Checks


> actually, the only ones who need to be concerned as to the time and how 
> they spend their money are those on SSI. Those on Social Security 
> Disability or retirement do not have to be concerned as this income is not 
> wages. I will probably be spending mine on various technology items and 
> paying off credit cards that are not providing good rates of interest. The 
> rest will go to developing my business activities as a consultant and 
> paralegal.
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Chambers" <regenerative at earthlink.net>
> To: "NFB of California List" <nfbc-info at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:29 PM
> Subject: [Nfbc-info] Questions Re: NFBC v Target Settlement Checks
>
>
>>
>> Hi all!
>>
>> Did anyone receive a claim denial letter?  I was supposedly sent one 
>> around January 1st, but do not think a paper mail version arrived.  I 
>> didn't find out about being denied my share of the Target claim until 
>> many NFB buddies had received their checks.  I contacted the law  firm, 
>> found out about the denial letter, and got everything fixed- up.  My web 
>> form had a typo, which caused it to be sorted into the  loser file.  If 
>> anyone knows anyone else who was denied, double-check  the reason, and 
>> try to fix any problems.  It's worth taking a few  minutes.
>>
>> What are people doing with their money?  Since I don't have any  (yet), 
>> I'm all ears!
>> A friend, who is receiving Section 8 housing assistance, and is on 
>> disability benefits after being disabled and blinded in middle-age:   she 
>> found out that she has to spend the money within the month.   Since, she 
>> lives within her means, she has nothing she needs to buy.   She is 
>> planning to go on a cruise, and buy things like new TVs, etc.   It sounds 
>> to me like she is wasting her money!  Social Security told  her to spend 
>> it, and keep the receipts.  That's what she is trying to  do.
>>
>> What are you doing?  Just among us, right!  (No spies on this list  from 
>> Social Security, or the IRS, right?)
>>
>> Fred Chambers
>> VP Beach Cities Chapter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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