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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • From the U.S. here, and the image is correct. My fiancé has chronic disabilities, with essentially no chance for recovery.

    I’m employed as her caretaker, and I make about $30k/year doing so. She is on SNAP (food assistance), medicaid (government paid healthcare), and SSI (monthly payments to her bank account).

    If we get married, it’ll mean a massive cost for us, since very little of these benefits would carry over afterwards. I legally cannot be her caretaker if we’re married, and my main job would put us in too high of a tax bracket for the rest of her benefits to go untouched.

    It’s a shockingly bad system.