Does anyone know of a doctor who accepts Medicaid in Illinois, preferably near Lake County?

Posted April 29th, 2008

Jeanne asked: I am in desperate need of an adult doctor who accepts Medicaid,(public aid) in or around the Lake County area. If anyone has any information that may help me find a doctor please let me know. Thank you!Medical Assistance Planning

Does medicaid help pay for college?

Posted April 22nd, 2008

jeanettemoreno83 asked: My grandaughter recently went back to school and got her G.E.D..
She also just had a baby, she is determined to go back to school (college) & money is tight. a friend of mine told me that medicaid will help pay for college. I don’t know how true this is. I have tried looking [...]

Laws That Protect The Mentally/Physically Handicapped from Taxes?

Posted April 22nd, 2008

Sherman81 asked: Let’s say i have a friend who gets SSI checks, Medicaid, and Medicare. She’s mentally/physically handicapped and she is being harrassed into paying her taxes like property tax and she was wondering is there a law that protects her from this harrassment, or does she have no other choice but to pay the [...]

tax question?

Posted April 21st, 2008

mommaof4 asked: my husband recently started a business and we are on government assistance. I have heard that you can only get credit for 2 children and we have 4. I wasn’t going to claim but 2 of them since we didn’t get credit for the other 2. My question is, will I get into [...]

will i still qualify for food stamps and tanf if i am going to school full time?

Posted April 19th, 2008

#1 due January 25th asked: Ok so i am 31 weeks pregnant. Right now in january and then once in april i am due to get a disbursement of student loans and grants etc. It totals to about $3000 bucks or so. However with that i use it to pay 3 months rent, and books, [...]

Do you think our U.S. government should or ever could implement this?

Posted April 17th, 2008

Sierra ☼ Sky asked: Should people that recieve government assistance such as welfare, public housing, food stamps, medicare, medicaid, free food hand-outs, unemployment, etc. be subjected to Drug & Alcohol Screens like most honest, hard working Americans are in their place of employment? If they fail…they lose their benefits.
Sure, I agree that some people really [...]

My mother in law is BROKE?

Posted April 14th, 2008

Raj’sGenie asked: She has two jobs,works day and though the middle of night. Has two kids with problems that require meds. They lost their medicaid. She busts her **** to share a can of beans basically. So, my question is,seeing how she works hard,spends all her money on family needs,not booze,not drugs,not fun,just bills,why cant [...]

Advice for NJ Food Stamp overpayment that keeps growing?

Posted April 11th, 2008

Margaret C asked: My household was overpaid food stamps. It came to about $661.00. We are willing to pay it back, and have made two payments thus far. Now I want to pay it off; but when I called to check the balance, I was told it was revised (which I received no notification for, [...]