I’ll never deal with it again. The employees were next to useless, you have to wait 20 minutes plus to talk to anyone, payments are delayed over and over and over, there’s no easy way to communicate necessary paperwork, and overall it makes the DMV look flat out efficient by comparison.

That was my experience twice, one year apart.

I used it last year after a stroke. I had a case worker at the hospital get me the application and a doctor does need to fill certain parts out and sign, but once the application was in it took a little over a month and I started receiving payments. There is a number you can call and the people I spoke with were very friendly.

If the surgery will take you out of work at all then I see no reason you can't apply. It's an insurance you pay in to.

https://www.mass.gov/info-details/paid-family-and-medical-leave-pfml-overview-and-benefits

Waiting for SMOC to pay my fuel assistance. 4mos past due. They claim they’ll pay once the shut-off moratorium (March 15th) happens. Hopefully National Grid won’t turn off my power before they pay.

Pretty shit.

Will be leaving once my partner's gig is up. Too many transplants, too many chains -- the city I love is dying and fast.

There are so many of these solar panel peddlers out there these days… I tend to assume they are pretty much a scam

Yep. I am feeling this. It’s everywhere… utility bills are outrageous even in this relatively mild winter… food is basically 2x what it used to be. Have I cut back on stuff? The answer is yes.

And if the Republicans hadn't blocked the other bill no strike would have been necessary.

You're acting like a strike should have been allowed to happen, which is debatable given the massive damage it would have caused to the broader economy. Hundreds of thousands of other people would have lost their jobs, is that relevant for you?

Took me 14 days, good luck

He his most likely "worth" many times that in non-liquid assets that can't be traced back to him with publicly available information.

No Guarantees, no way to prove short of some forensic accounting that would never happen unless he was investigated for a financial crime, but it would not be abnormal for someone in his position at all.

They definitely give negative fucks about it.

There's a remote chance he's too radioactive after this to become CEO at another corp but he likely still would and even if he doesn't he's still filthy rich and got rich by doing all the shit that people are rightfully mad at him for.

If by not doing much you mean: pays the monthly Medicare fee (what’s that, $165/month now?), covers medications, and picks up your share of the costs from appointments after medicares paid their portion, as well as providing vision/dental care and rides to medical appointments. Then sure. It does nothing.

Those onecare and senior plans also provide additional benefits, including a whole team of case managers, home care services, and non medical rides.

I’m not really sure what you mean by “isnt true insurance”. Masshealth picks up where Medicare stops. I’m not sure what your idea of having both would mean besides…one picking up where the other leaves off. Of course it’s supplemental, you can’t have two insurers paying the exact same portion of the same bill. That doesn’t mean you don’t have both insurances.

I’ve been fooled by a couple Brazilian Bens in my time buying coffee there.

Can’t squeak out a centennial celebration? Sign of things :(

I lived in caribou main for a month once... there is so much radon in the groundwater I sware I started losing hair like a cancer patient within that month.

high is like 4 carries.... caribou had more than 300 carries.

Then it’s called a “supplement” and isn’t true regular insurance and it really doesn’t do much.

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They keep raising my mortgage and I’m gonna have to raise rent tomorrow on my guy after 7 years. Gonna be a fart in a funeral moment for sure. Living alone is hard. I see why guys die early. 50 hr weeks to be at 0. I’m so tired. Prob be in tax debt for workin so much. Even better than zero. having negative fake money.

Yes. You can. My mother has both. I also worked as a case manager for a few hundred clients who had both a few years back. You just have to be eligible for both. There’s even an entire system here in MA built for folks with both masshealth and Medicare. There’s onecare for those who are disabled under 65, then there’s things like senior whole health for those 65 or older which is a Medicare advantage plan and both combines your Medicare and masshealth benefits under one plan. Or, like many, you can use them separately with Medicare being the primary and masshealth being a secondary insurer.

No you cannot get both.

Hotboxes have always been a thing. People jumped on this incident as a chance to grab the media spotlight and complain about PSR. It wasn’t a direct act of negligence like Lac Megantic was.

They have the option to ensure that the rails and the trains are operating as safely as possible which they did not do. There were many people who have been saying for years that an accident like this was inevitable because of actions rail companies were taking.

Is processing mean approvedalready ?

What documentation was missing?

NS de facto runs through Massachusetts via their joint venture Pan Am Southern, which sees NS trains with NS locomotives running from North Adams to Ayer using Pan Am crews.

Now that CSX has acquired Pan Am, some of those NS trains will run over the B&A to Worcester and then up to Ayer so they can avoid the lower clearance of the Hoosac Tunnel.