Hi Lexi,

Are you living in subsidized housing? If not, I'd definitely recommend looking into availability ASAP.

Disability Linkage Line was an enormous help to me in my beginning. 1-866-333-2466 They have all sorts of information! As I recall, it isn't easy to get through. Leave a message and they will call you back within 24 hours (on weekdays).

Regarding you last Q, about why: government wants to know who's living in subsidized housing, their disabilities, how much they make, etc. Reasoning is that the government can take their income into account & pay less for your housing.

SSI does take variable income into account as well. Every month, you should receive a print out stating how much you earned in May, subtract $90 (or something like that) from earned cash. Divide by 2, and then subtract that amount from $674. The difference is the amount you'll receive from SSI in August. Subsidized housing works kind of the same. They'll take your total income (earned & SSI) for whatever month, subtract medical fees paid, and divide difference by three. They do take income from other adults into account ~ I'm unsure how it works from there. I do know non-disabled adults that live with disabled in subsidized housing, so it can be done...but don't know the percentages.

Hope that i haven't confused you. Give DLL a call tomarrow!