Laura Mauldin
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 21 Feb
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At the time that this happened, Angel was working full time, five days a week, every day, going in and working as a contractor at a retirement community near his home.
And as is standard in that industry, he was considered retired.
An independent contractor, someone who was self-employed, right?
So he didn't have any benefits.
And then on the other side of this was Kim, who at the time was recovering, basically, from being a full-time caregiver for her father when...
Angel has a stroke, he's basically paralyzed on one side, can't see out of that eye as well, and can no longer work as a contractor.
And this is not good because how are they going to pay their rent if he can't work?
And this was a few years ago, around 2018, I believe.
And they went to the Social Security office to get Social Security so that they could pay the rent.
But in fact, the amount that you get from Social Security is highly variable.
Because it's based on the number of years you worked.
It's this formula around work credits.
And so although he had been working for many years, he, like most other Social Security recipients, received somewhere in the realm of like $1,500 a month.
Which doesn't provide a livable amount of money or what we might call a living wage, even though we often think that, yes, you're disabled and then you just go down there and you just get all these benefits.
When he was in the rehab, nobody talked to her, really.
Nobody shared what she might want to expect, nothing.
And then she goes to pick him up and bring him home and leave.
The only thing they hand them as they're going out the door is a pamphlet for suicide prevention.
It's this idea that you would probably prefer to be dead than be disabled.
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