Which US state has the best state assistance programs for the disabled?

Answer 1

The General Public is under the false impression that there are all kinds of social services available to the disabled. This is a Myth - and a cruel myth and infliction to the disabled. There are no services at all - and the disabled pay exorbitantly more for everything that the able take for granted. (A simple bar of soap will cost an able person $2.00 in the market - a disabled person will pay that, plus $7.99 in shipping - not to mention the cost of a wheelchair, or an adapted vehicle: $30,00000 to $50,000.00 extra and above the normal cost of a vehicle. I am physically disabled, confined to a wheelchair, and have a debilitating chronic and steadily worsening decay of the central nervous system which began when a truck hit me 30 years ago. I have no family and no other person or persons to help me. I lived in Annapolis, Maryland for eleven years and never asked for anything. When things became overwhelming I called Social Services. There was only a recording to be reached at several numbers. I had to leave a message; no one returned my call. I called many more times. It took weeks until someone answered my calls, leaving a message on my phone (being crippled, I can't get to the phone quickly enough.) Week after week, I dialed number after number - each of which invariably only told me that it wasn't their job and gave me another number to call, who gave me another number, who gave me another number, who gave me another number, who.... , and often I would eventually be referred back to the first number that I had called or one of those I had already called along the way. This pattern continued for four months. After about three months, the county sent out someone to evaluate me, who gave me sheaves of numbers, none of which felt they had the responsibility to aid a disabled person. After three and a half months, the County did finally manage to properly process my application for discount transportation (after it had had me begin and complete the application process three times). After the four months, I left the state. I went to Providence, Rhode Island - to find that its "social services" here operates in an identical manner to that which I found in Maryland: One calls an aid agency, which answers that they are not responsible, but they give another number to call which says that it is not responsible but give another number to call. This repeats over and over again. I am often referred to the same numbers/agencies that I have already called. I have learned that "Social Services / Human Services" at least in these two places is a myth. There are a lot of offices, a lot of desks, a lots of telephones, a lot of personnel, a lot of salaries paid, a lot of benefits programs paid with them - but there are actually no services at all for the disabled. I despair of finding different in another location.