I believe her story is a bit more nuanced. She took the money she received and spent it on her self and never gave it to the facility. She actively did this because she thought she would be dead soon.
So a 93 yo starts mis-spending her rent money, endangering her housing, and the reaction isn’t to start monitoring her spending, and other behaviors that might be changing as she ages, and to check her out for dementia, it’s to evict her, and toss her in jail.
I’m not defending them. But I’m just informing. She received HUD payments for her rent but used them for fun. To the tune of like 60,000$. She committed fraud with the government assistance she received. It wasn’t money in her bank account.
And doesn’t that just expose the underlying immorality even more? The elderly are told to spend down extra money. It’s common sense. You can’t take it with you. Plan as best you can, right?
Any housing provider or retirement center that can’t reasonably deal with the fact that some of their oldest residents might unexpectedly run out of cash, well, I have zero respect for them. Don’t open that kind of business if you aren’t ready for this kind of entirely predictable scenario. It’s just wrong.
I believe her story is a bit more nuanced. She took the money she received and spent it on her self and never gave it to the facility. She actively did this because she thought she would be dead soon.
So a 93 yo starts mis-spending her rent money, endangering her housing, and the reaction isn’t to start monitoring her spending, and other behaviors that might be changing as she ages, and to check her out for dementia, it’s to evict her, and toss her in jail.
I’m not defending them. But I’m just informing. She received HUD payments for her rent but used them for fun. To the tune of like 60,000$. She committed fraud with the government assistance she received. It wasn’t money in her bank account.
Even so, this shouldn’t happen. Several persons did some really evil shit here.
I did a dick move because she was also behaving like a dick.
Really? That excuse didn’t work in Kindergarden and sure as shit doesn’t hold up in the grown up world.
MAGAs ascribe to the Two Wrongs Make A Right philosophy, but only when the second wrong is by a MAGA. EVERYTHING is wrong if it’s a Democrat.
And doesn’t that just expose the underlying immorality even more? The elderly are told to spend down extra money. It’s common sense. You can’t take it with you. Plan as best you can, right?
Any housing provider or retirement center that can’t reasonably deal with the fact that some of their oldest residents might unexpectedly run out of cash, well, I have zero respect for them. Don’t open that kind of business if you aren’t ready for this kind of entirely predictable scenario. It’s just wrong.