My state's website wants me to fill out a form that lists all the members of my household and disclose what the household income is. Problem is if I include my dad I most likely will not be able to qualify. And I can't like write on the form anywhere "yes I live at home with my dad and he makes well over $30k a year, but he won't help me financially unless he feels like it." I really don't know what to do. I keep running out of money and food, I need EBT and cash assistance but if I lie and don't include my dad or lie about the household income, that's fraud and I could get in a lot of trouble I can't handle.
The fuck am I supposed to do? Has any other comrades ran into anything like this before? I know every state is different but maybe someone else on here lives at home with a wealthy parent and still qualified for EBT.
Help!!
I don't want anyone to follow my example and get in trouble but I didn't have to prove shit, like, I just filled out my app, got a phone call asking some basic questions and when I said my gf is paying rent "but with the expectation I pay her back" they just took my rent portion off my application (because it was somehow reducing my benefits, I guess by making it look like I had more income) and then a few days later I got my card with my government food monopoly money on it
Yeah you know, I almost mentioned that just about every time I've interacted with a real live human as a case worker on my applications, they did everything they could to at least get me some of the benefits. Go figure. California, btw, not sure if that makes a difference.
I'm just saying that if their dad could arguably fit into any of those categories of "not being a housemate" then they should leave him off the application, but if none of these exceptions apply and they can't present some kind of evidence for whichever story they do tell, then it doesn't seem worth the risk, but that's just because I don't want a comrade to have to face any of the penalties that they threaten you with.