poverty_finance

Same milk same store has gone from 2.75 a gallon to 6.00

Chicken breast 5-6 per pack to 11-13, unable to tell price per pound but I believe they have started adding more water/packaging to meat

Can't compare jalapeño or habanero prices because they haven't been in stock this year yet :D

Onions 1.99 per bag to 3.99

Frozen spinach 2.50 to 4.50, also size has been reduced

Please libz, tell me again how inflation is only ~8% per year.

It's not good folks. £2.2k to fix it all. Every molar is needs filling. Wisdom tooth is decaying badly and causing pain and needs to be removed.

Any advice how to break this down or make it cheaper? I've been trying to get into an NHS dentist but not a single place is accepting patients within travellable distance :sadness-abysmal:

So i've not worked since 2018 due to my Opioid addiction and now that i'm finally pulling myself out of that, i'd like to get back into work. Problem is, I was basically doing nothing besides getting high for 4 years straight. What are some ideas of what to put down for work history when I start filing out applications.

A comrade posted about this USA federal program a while ago. So I spent a few days looking into it.

Website was fairly clear, making an account was no problem, site function is pretty good (no hanging pages, dead links, etc). There's a link to a page where you can put in your city/state or zip code and it gives a <100% accurate list of businesses that participate in the program. (So if you already have a service provider and they aren't listed, call their customer service number and ask if they participate in the Affordable Connectivity Program. Two of the local telecoms that service my area participate, and their customer service people absolutely knew about the program and seemed genuinely happy to let me know what I needed to do.)

It took a day or so for the ACP site to tell me I was approved. The first page after logging in to the site has your "Application ID" right there for you to see. This is the magic number to give to your ISP. I contacted my ISP about midway through the billing cycle and gave them the info they wanted. They didn't contact me to let me know when the discount was going to be applied but it showed up as a 30 dollar credit on my next full month's bill. Which dropped my current internet bill down by 77%.

So, its all very :hexbear-retro:, so far.

A new internet service just came out to my house today to finish running actual fiberoptic with ~100Mbps up/down (compared to my original provider with 15/1... which is ... :downbear: ). From the ACP site's FAQ page, the credit is transferable to a new ISP and all I think I needed to do was just give the new ISP the Application ID number. So I've started the process with the new ISP and get to wait to see if I understood the program's directions for transferring the credit correctly.

So at the very least, if you're already on some government assistance, this should be a breeze if you want to try for it.

I didn't look at the part of the application process for people who would need to provide more documentation for income verification. So I don't have any useful things to say about that.

For most people, there are free options to do your taxes directly through the IRS

The pay per hour is shit, but you never have to leave your computer and you get a dopamine hit when you complete a task. Beats taking surveys monetarily. You get more per hour when you've completed more tasks. I would only recommend this if you're absolutely struggling.

These fuckers won’t stop calling my phone. Cool ass country.

Edit: oh wrong website. That’s how confusing this all is! The right scam site is http://studentloanforgivenesscenters.com/ and https://yelp.to/AUQMcXj8dnb

America is one big grift!!!