| I have used most of those services at some point. MediCal is the least of my worries. And there is no dental care in MediCal, so that's inaccurate. I got GR two times before. it's $230 per month. they only make you come in to the welfare office with a list of 10 jobs that you applied for per week, to prove you are not just living high off the fat of the land with that whopping $230 per month. both times i was on GR they cut it off after 2 months. then i go into the welfare office, wait 3 hours in line, talk to a new case worker who is a foreigner who doesn't speak English natively, and they are confused about their own system and have no idea why the payments stopped. then they say "well, re-apply to GR and start all over." they force you to wait a minimum of 30 days from when you apply for GR until they deposit and cash into your EBT card account. the reason for the wait is because LA DPSS case workers are so swamped with applicants that it takes a month for them to look at a dozen checkboxes on one piece of paper and approve it in the computer. while going through the GR process, i just laughed at how many city employees were involved and how many hoops they made us jump through to create busy-work for low level govt clerks, just for $230 per month. GR is more of a welfare program for govt workers than it is for the homeless. 90% of people on GR are the homeless. i bet the administration costs of running the GR program dwarfs the amount of cash aid given to the poorest people. one thing i found the funniest and saddest about GR cash aid is that i'm jumping through hoops and begging the govt for my own money that i already paid in taxes. when you get GR, they make you sign a form that you understand and agree that GR cash aid will be deducted from your future Social Security income. so in the grand national scheme, none of the States are even giving cash aid to their homeless populations out of the State budget and local taxes--it's all coming from FedGov using Social Security to fund it through the backdoor. and there is no temporary housing assistance in LA. you can sign up, but the waiting list is over 5 years. i can personally confirm this is the most recent data that LA DPSS told me back in June 2019, the last time i went to the welfare office. a few times per year they will offer hotel vouchers as temporary housing. but the hotels are in Orange County--an hours drive away, assuming i had a vehicle. i suspect this is another backdoor scheme by which LA covertly ships its homeless population to Orange Country to roll us off the count to juke the stats, so the mayor can have a press conference and say "We are doing something and it's getting better." Also the kicker about the hotel vouchers is that you also have to pay for it from your GR cash aid. coincidentally enough, the amount you would pay for 30 days of hotel vouchers is the entire $230 you would get from GR per month. so your choice is either "here, have $230 per month and stretch it out and try to not die on the street" or "here, go live in a hotel in El Monte in Orange County and have zero dollars to live on." the FBI should probably investigate who owns these hotels used for housing the homeless paid by Social Security funds and who in LA City Govt is getting the kick backs for this scam. i wasn't exaggerating when i say my mind was blown when i went to the welfare office to get help and saw with my own eyes how little was available and how much of a scam it was. that was my "Joker" moment. |