The Onion

Yay! My meagre disability income is just barely above the threshold to qualify for SNAP.

You see, the calculations that are done for SNAP eligibility include the amount of my SSDI that goes toward my Medicare premium as part of my income.

Even though I literally never see that money come into my bank account, and thus is not considered income for the purposes of my credit score, or applying to rent an apartment.

Oh but there are Medicare Savings Programs to help with that!

Nope, they count the Medicare premium as income too, don't qualify.

... If SNAP and MSP did not count my automatically deducted Medicare premium as income, I would qualify for both.

If apartments did count my automatically deducted Medicare premium as income, I could rent a modest studio apartment, instead of a room in a literal roach motel that went out of business and is under new management as an 'apartment' with absolutely no renovation whatsoever.

(And because I am under 60/65 and disabled, basically nowhere that bills itself as an apartment for disabled folks will consider me. I'm under 60/65, I don't qualify.

And do not even get me started on Section 8)

... I suppose it is technically possible to renounce Medicare coverage... as a disabled person... and thus basically never be elligible for it or any other kind of health insurance ever again.

Goooood Bless America