Irene, I do collect SS. It's just not enough to live on. $1130 a month. My payment is very low, because I was on disability from age 42. At retirement age, it automatically became retirement instead of disability, but since I had very little earnings for over 20 years, it's a very low payout.
It costs me $1752 a month to live. MSing makes up the difference. After I was injured in 2015, I could not work at all for most of two years; I basically borrowed $500 a month every month, so I am mired in debt. I stayed with my daughter in Salt Lake City for 8 months, and got a job and paid off massive amount of debt (about $14,000 in 8 months), but after I came back home, my car broke down (again and again and again; I actually knew this day was coming, LOL!).
I would take any legal job I could get. I had no trouble at all getting a job in Salt Lake City. There just aren't any jobs here. I have applied for every one that has come open in the last year, dishwasher, cook, waitress, cashier. I did get one interview, but didn't get that job. The rest didn't even interview me.
My daughter has since moved away from SLC, and is back in Nebraska.
I have applied for the local housing -- but the waiting list is so long, they closed the waiting list. My income is far above Nebraska welfare payments, and they explained to me that anyone who applied AFTER me who had a lower income (welfare) would automatically be ahead of me if a unit came open. I've been on the waiting list for 15 years, LOL.