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Ssdi ranges from 943 to 3627 per month depending on your work history. It’s a pension system so if you’ve paid nothing into it you get the minimum. It can also pay a bit more depending on state because some states have supplements in addition to the federal payment
Section 8 is tough depending on where you live. Some places around here the wait list is so long that it’s literally years and as a result they won’t let new cases join until old ones are purged; which is this nightmare process where they contact you if you’re on the list and if you don’t respond you’re kicked off and then a few spots may open up and people scramble to apply for the day they’re open.
The attitude is generally “you don’t have a job so you can spend your time managing your benefits”. For some people this isn’t wrong but for a lot of people it’s a serious issue; they’re disabled so they don’t work because they spend their time managing their healthcare, or they don’t have the capacity to manage this kind of stuff to begin with, etc. but in a lot of places there’s little sympathy for this and then your benefits are cut, the process to re-enable them can take weeks or months, and in the interim that can mean you lose housing, access to medical care, etc