Food Stamps

MedicRyan

MedicRyan

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This is a pretty sad question to ask, but I have asked some questions in the past about how to live on regionals salaries and I recieved a few responses telling me to make sure I apply for food stamps. I just wanted to know if anyone has ever been on food stamps because they didn't make enough at a regional. If the answer is yes, then does it hurt you in the long run as far a credit, purchasing a home, etc.

Thanks,
 
Not a sad question at all to ask! I am qualified to answer this question. You do qualify for food stamps as an FO at a regional, first year starting pay.
 
Isnt it sad that a first officer of a passenger jet is a qualified applicant for food stamps. That is a joke. What the hell is wrong with this picture? You are responsible for thousands of lives everyday and they can not even pay you above the poverty level...
 
Ooops that came out the wrong way on my part. Yes it is sad that I qualify for food stamps, VERY sad.
 
Here's a program which sees if you qualify for food stamp benefits etc:
http://209.48.219.49/fns/

Unfortuantly, because I'm watching out for my future with a savings account above $1,000 and below $10,000 I don't qualify.
 
YOu cant qualify for food stamps. Thats just an exageration. I honestly looked into it. And even though I dont make much, to qualify for welfare you need to make a lot less. I think its somewhere around 950-1100 a month to qualify. Maybe just maybe ifyou work for greatlakes, and only get gurantee you might qualify. But my understanding is that at lakes, you fly your ass off, so you most likely break guarentee everymonth.

Pilots are cheap out of necessity. So if we could get food stamps, we would. So how many F/Os do you know collecting it? I dont know of any.
 
I knew lots of pilots and F/As at Eagle who did the food stamp thing.

Certainly with a starting pay of $10.75/flight hour we MORE than qualified. I didn't crack 10k my first year.
 
A good percentage of Skyway pilots with kids were on public assistance back in the day. Matter of fact, when I worked on the union communications committee producing newsletters during contract negotiations, we used that information to our benefit.

I still remember when we had a chart showing starting wages at Burger King, Wendys and even the airport cafeteria and compared that to a new 1900 FO! I can't remember if it was in the newsletter or we went as far as putting that in a paid ad in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
 
But, but, but...I thought all the people on public assistance were a bunch of pot smoking slackers who sat around getting stoned all day long? :sarcasm:

Sad, isn't it? They pay pilots so little that food stamps are an option yet people think pilots are swigging champagne and chowing down on caviar.
 
But my understanding is that at lakes, you fly your ass off, so you most likely break guarentee everymonth.
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Lakes' FOM states that pilots are not allowed to recieve or use food stamps in uniform ...
 
pilot602 said:
Lakes' FOM states that pilots are not allowed to recieve or use food stamps in uniform ...
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Now that's a joke, How the heck do they expect a first year FO to live with 17,000$ + - a year.
 
pilot602 said:
Lakes' FOM states that pilots are not allowed to recieve or use food stamps in uniform ...
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Yeah, since it makes them look bad. I don't see how they can control what you wear when you're off-duty.

Nice signature, 602.
 
Texguy said:
Yeah, since it makes them look bad. I don't see how they can control what you wear when you're off-duty.
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They control how you weird their uniform while you're off duty -- that wing with their corporate logo is theirs. For example, you can't wear any uniform pieces and consume alcoholic beverages in the aircraft while you're commuting -- with or without wings/epaulets/etc.

One of my neighbors at my last company wore full winter uniform (sans overcoat), company ID and applied for public assistance. I thought he was kidding but he went back next door and pulled out a picture his wife took of him, in line, holding their new child.

I lived in rent-controlled low-income housing in Milwaukee and had to fudge the numbers in order to qualify for the minimum allowable income! :) They property manager loved pilots because we had income low enough to qualify, were generally clean, caused no trouble and paid our rent on time.

Well, for the most part.
 
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