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Originally Posted by Perna
That's basically what legal incompetence is for SSI. If you have not had money/managed money in the past no one is going to give you money to "practice" with? They aren't in the business of educating one to budget money, they are trying to help one get food, shelter and clothing and that's it. If one has mis-managed (bought drugs instead of food) or not worked/had money to manage before, probably whoever has been managing or giving to/supporting one in the past will continue to be doing that.
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So, in this response you cherry picked part of a phrase I used. If one bothers to respond it makes sense to respond to what is actually written.
But, ok
If you are just responding to that partial phrase and we are pretending I actually said and suggested all the things you imply in this response?
Financially stupid still doesn't equal legal incompetence. If that were the case, any one who ever found themselves in debt up to their eyeballs would find themselves in mental health court one way or another.
As I said, depending on diagnosis and often firstly on the judges general opinion of the
diagnosis then secondarily of station or individual circumstances, one may end up with a rep payee.
Honestly, no matter what the SSA puts in writing, in practice things tend to work differently and it is a lot easier to lose your power of agency to some extent than one might think.
It sucks, but to be forewarned is to be forearmed.