Posts Tagged ‘disability’

10
Nov
2022

I shouldn’t have been surprised at any of this.

categories: personal; word count: 263 words

In spite of both of my children’s cases having approved good cause waivers on them exempting them from enforcement so that we can safely receive state benefits, they have once again been referred by the HHSC (Health and Human Services Commission) to the child support office, which is not legal. I have filed a second complaint, will be conversing with the child support office tomorrow morning again over this — didn’t I do this at around the same time last year? — and will consider contacting Legal Aid over this for what might actually be the third time now if enforcement efforts on both cases are not promptly stopped. I also filed another complaint over ambiguous, confusing wording in the state manual as it relates to homeschooling and having that serve as a work exemption, because no such state certification exists in Texas as is now purportedly required by the state benefit handbook. And just like I mentioned when I wrote about this for the first time, everyone was as confused as I was when I sought clarification on it. Everyone seems to get as confused as I am about these child support cases illegally being re-opened for enforcement when they should not be, but it’s my job to make them do their jobs, safely and legally allow us to access benefits and to continue to access benefits, and to keep us safe. If that inconveniences some people, well then so be it.

As has been said with more and more frequency now, let the bridges that I burn light my way, as they will.

08
Nov
2022

This entire day has been one giant headache.

categories: personal; word count: 254 words

There was a change to the manual that has rules and regulations for several of the means-tested government benefits in this state, and no one working for the state has been able to give me any sort of clarification about that — almost all of them didn’t even know that this change had been made to the benefits manual, and all of them conceded that they had no idea how one would even go about doing what it requested (claiming that all home-schooling parents in Texas have to be “state-certified” when there is no law stating that one has to be, nor is there even a path to obtain whatever… certifications this is alluding to or referencing). All I know is that if I have to fight for benefits that we are eligible for, or if I am even so much as briefly denied those benefits, this gives me standing to sue, and I fully do intend on contacting Legal Aid when this happens. I’ve had to contact them before when the state has violated benefit law in the past, although those incidents only escalated so far as the child support office finding out that I had made contact with them with the intent to litigate before the corrupt “chief ombudsman” Stephanie Neely stood down and placed the good cause waiver back on my youngest son’s case. I do love continuing to make her searchable!

I hope that this gets fixed soon though because I really don’t want to have to contact Legal Aid again.

22
Oct
2022

This is what I got for my European heritage!

categories: personal; word count: 202 words

I wish I had the foresight to make the screenshots the same size when I took them, but one of the few pitfalls about the Genomelink site is the ease at which these were… not, to screenshot. However, at least my blog lets me shrink them down to size to make posting about them easier… I’m thankful for that. (And this gives me another chance to play the game of “laugh at the British heritage that I have little to none of, because I am primarily Scandinavian and that is very likely Scottish and Welsh heritage lumped into the British percentile. Multiple other tests that I have done have not picked up detectable British DNA, and of all things, GEDmatch did not pick up British DNA in my ancestry. I could write a completely separate post on “the British thing” that some ancestry apps and websites… do, but I have other posts that I want to write when my migraines consistently recede even just a bit, so I will get to that in due time. All in due time, my friends.)

These posts will be fun to come back to and make when my migraines are even a bit more under control!

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