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When you are dirt poor and need agency assistance, it is not enough that you have difficulty gathering information requested, figuring out exactly what to say so that you represent your situation clearly, or even that you have barriers to sending that information by lack of access to transportation, internet and/or printer access, and money to fax the data to them.

Once you have managed to overhaul and conscript all efforts to achieve these accomplishments, they want you to keep updating them in the same way, with likely the same difficulties, again and again and again.

I have given up filing for unemployment because of this. Should I focus on continuously regluing the red tape as a faulty system keeps tearing my data line to fragments – or should I divert these efforts toward ensuring that I never need its help, again?

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