Guest guest Posted April 8, 2002 Report Share Posted April 8, 2002 ----- Original Message ----- From: " by way of ilena rose " <day2@...> <Recipient List Suppressed:;> Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 2:05 AM Subject: settlement questions > ilena: > > Please post this question to the group: > > Assuming that all my settlement is for pain and suffering, would it be > exempt from Texas creditors? I believe most states differ on what can > be attached? > I only need to know Texas. > > What about credit card debt? > > How do I protect it from stopping my food stamp, and med programs in the > low income program? I am not in the SSI program. but live on ssd check, > below the poverty line. > > What about if bankruptcy has been filed but settlement is not listed in > the assets? > > If I settle - the low income programs will be discontinued because of > the report of > this money? It will take at least 6 months to a year to get back on the > programs - How will I live? My meds are approx. $1500 a month. To > spend down will be no problem, but these programs are veryyyy slow and > will keep denying you - its hard for them to accept that you now are > needy. > > These programs list your income for the year. You will not meet > elibility until the next year - is how they see it. So, if your > settlement is $30,000. and with disability check, total is 36,000. spend > down, & attached by creditors; your worse off than before - > > What am I missing in my deductions? > > Somebody Please help me see how to make it work? > > > Content-Description: signature > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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