Thread by @StephNeedsHelp

@VermontDCF Hi. HELP!!!! We have spent more than 15 hours in the past month talking with your staff, trying to resolve a problem with the fact that we are square pegs (seasonal work) in your round hole (assume that if you made $$$ last month you will make the same $$$ this month.

@VermontDCF @VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch What I am facing is that this entire structure is set up with only disincentives to stop being poor. Any step you take to raise yourself from poverty only risks your food safety, your health access, your kids college funding...

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch Please help. My electricity will be turned off next Monday. I do not have enough money to buy food and pay the bills.

I bought a car from @ChipTroiano with the idea that if I couldn't get it registered I could at least sell the tires....

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch @ChipTroiano .... Well, turns out the winter tires won't pass inspection. Isn't that a kick in the pants?

So now what? The $250 car that we fixed using parts from a dead car in our driveway and then paid to replace the power steering, so I could have a car in the winter which now I can't..

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch @ChipTroiano ...get fixed, in part, because our food stamps were not re-upped and every dime we spend on food is a dime not going toward fixing the car, paying the bills, paying back the personal loans I have due to irregular work, because my husband worked extra to pay to fix the car.....

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch @ChipTroiano How in the world am I supposed to move forward?

Or am I not supposed to? We can ask for a review in another 90 days, but the thing is, we won't have electricity for the next 90 days. And what will DCF do with the fact that there's a house with kids and no power? This is awful...

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch @ChipTroiano ... and unnecessary and is causing my blood pressure to rise. I can feel my heart racing. I can feel my depression deepening. I am tired of drowning, and having to beg for help whilst drowning is a particularly cruel turn of a screw.

So, please help....

@VermontDCF @GovPhilScott @SenatorLeahy @PeterWelch @ChipTroiano ... You can find our info. Just see which case took up an inordinate amount of time with any number of case workers and supervisors in the Barre and Morrisville office.

You're there to help. We are a family in need of help. Please help.

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