Agreed. From what I've observed, Bob was clearly the only one who cared at least a little. Even then, Barb has always been an emotionally abusive psycho. Hell, she took out a reverse mortgage when Bob paid off all of it so Chris could have a house. Sad.
Pretty much this. If Barb hadn't hired a high priced attorney (she still plead guilty btw), there would have been more money for Chris (who would've have spent it either way, let's be honest). Everything that Bob built, Barb destroyed in the matter of months. No one, except Chris, will cry when she's dead. The sad part is Chris probably didn't/doesn't realize that his mom took advantage of him via emotional abuse/manipulation and theft. Then again, Chris learned from experience since he was taking money from both his parents in the past so, there's also that.
The waiting list for even "emergency" Section 8 housing is months or years long. So he'd probably end up in some shitty welfare hotel run by a slumlord, maybe in Charlottesville or somewhere like that, for at least a while before he got subsidized housing. It might even be more screwed up than usual thanks to the coof.
Barb is a sociopath. If she gave a shit she wouldn't have mortgaged the house out the ass the instant Bob died to buy more hoard shit.
It's a normal mortgage. The only source for the reverse mortgage thing was a mistake by Null years ago that he nearly immediately corrected.
Even if Chris owned the house and lot free and clear, property and other taxes wouldn't be getting paid. The house not turning into a public nuisance/hazard or catching on fire (again) would be an impossibility without very involved outside oversight.
If barb had raised Chris at least half-decently, the idea mongs wouldn't have been able to worm their way elbow-deep into Chris' puppet ass.
There are more slots for living situations like group homes than there are people who want them. The idea they're forcing people into them who don't want to be there is as autistic as Chris himself.
There are so many reasons he won't go into a group home you lose track of them. And how the hell is a total lack of spaces for even people who want them not an issue? Resources are finite. They can't just magic up some new homes out of nothing.
I did a rundown years ago on here with estimates on local services like trash pickup, power, water, etc... for 14 Branchland to see if Chris could keep it with what he gets from the government. Long story short, he could, but the issue was he would only be left with a couple hundred each month. Easy for a normal person to live on, but not with Chris's spending.
No idea what the rules on disability are like in the US, but aren't there tight asset limits? Would he even be allowed to get SSDI while owning 14 Branchland, even worse assuming Barb still has some equity on the property, is he at risk for losing his SSDI if he inherits and sells it?
SSDI is insurance. It's not needs-based, although earning a certain amount of money can show that you're not actually disabled. You're thinking of SSI, which is a form of welfare. Chris's SSDI is based on Bob's income because Bob got him on it as a child and got him grandfathered in as an adult, so he gets Medicare instead of Medicaid and more than you'd get on SSI without having done any substantial work in his life.
The idea guys were a whole hell of a lot deeper than elbow. I'd say their whole damn arm was up it.
that's probably the one thing about chris' life story that pisses me off the most. He makes 1200 a month (up from 800) all because daddy bob signed him up for what should have been his SSDI earned for his retirement after working his ass off for years as a moderately successful engineer for general electric.
It's not minimum wage. It doesn't matter how much it is so long as it is not "substantial gainful activity," which generally means a 40+ hour work week. Certain levels of income are considered indicative of SGA, $1,310 for people who are not legally blind, for instance.
