Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
You don't know what that section 8 person's financial situation is like. You also don't know if they own the car outright from before or what.

My disabled family member that I help gets 900 a month, period. You try buying food, paying utilities and rent on that. Never mind a bus pass, a bag of food for your pet, and a few other non-necessities that aren't luxuries. Rent, $500 a month ( and that's low income housing) and utils can top $150 in winter.
Irulan- first of all- if they owned the car outright from before and it was worth anything- the responsible thing to do would be to sell it, go by an older car (so say you sell your SUV for 25k if it is in new shape, you buy an older car but with under 80,000 miles for 5 grand- you then put 20k in the bank and save on gas)

If they are making payments on it- the responsible thing would be to let it go back and put that money towards your family.


Then on the section 8 is housing assistance- it does not encompass other financial assistance towards living- so the fact that they are getting $800 a month in just housing assistance is astronomical.