Not that I owe ANYONE an explanation, but... First of all, I don't get SSI (welfare disability-means you did not work and pay into the system). On SSI you can make $100 a month and after that, they take every other dollar. I get SSDI, which means I worked and paid into the system and am drawing my own money back out. I can make up to like 750ish a month with no impact what so ever on my disability. I did not renew my food stamps because I felt I made too much money now. Not sure what they would have said because I did not even try to renew. This was over a year ago. Grocery stores etc. I use to buy things to reduce expenses, like toilet paper, bath soap, etc. since reimbursements are not taxable income.
Now as far as being disabled, IF you were in my shoes I doubt you would try as hard as I do. I can not stand for over 10 minutes straight. (Well maybe a couple of more minutes in a pinch). Both of my knees need a total replacement surgery, my left knee the meniscus is completely shredded and irreparable. My veins in my legs are not that great, I have venous insufficiency, which means that my blood "sags" on the return trip back up to my heart. Every single time I do a long road trip I come home with my left leg swelled up twice the size of my right leg. I have a problem with my back which means that I can not walk a mile, without my lower left back locking up and having to sit down to get it to release. The only place I can exercise for any significant length of time is in a pool of water. I am obese, with asthma. When I do a gas station I do the interior, go out and do the pumps and sit down in my car to complete my evaluation. When I go back in to give them the cure sheet I take the time to answer questions, even when I'm hurting. Sometimes when I get back to the car I am sweating and strained from the pain but I do the station correctly and fairly. But this is how I survive by doing "short bouts of work" followed by rest by sitting in the car driving to the next location. Medicare bought me a $6000 power wheelchair. When I got my car, (not this car, in 2007). I gave up the wheelchair. The last repo yard I did I could not possibly walk the fence it was just too big, in 98-degree heat. ( It did not look that big on the satellite view). I got permission to drive my car around and check the fence. I did not chicken out, quit or any other such rubbish. I did what I could according to my limitations. I checked every single section of fence and got out the car to check one section that I needed to honestly say I saw it.
I don't know and I don't care what other people would do in my situation. I am trying to get some money to buy some tax liens and get some properties to rent out as cheaply as possible. I have never in my whole life owned any property. When I'm hurting and in pain, I remember my dream, my dream of owning a swimming pool, of having passive income so that I can be self-sufficient. I don't know when my disability will get cut off I will continue doing everything I have to do overcome poverty and impoverishment. One day and one shop at a time until I get there.