This is a followup diary to
the one I posted last week, which was itself a followup to
the one in January (please see these for more details). Longtime Sacramento-area kossack
aitchdee found herself disabled by rheumatoid arthritis, unable to work, and facing immediate tax auction of her modest condo. Serious roof leaks had consumed her savings and now made it impossible to sell the condo for enough to pay the tax liability, so she turned to us fearing that she was about to become homeless.
The good advice she received here helped her file the correct form of bankruptcy just in time. This does NOT discharge her tax debt, but it forces the county to wait one year before the auction. Meanwhile, she's received assistance from another expert kossack in completing her application for SSDI benefits, and is thought to have a good chance of success (because she is so obviously ill in ways that interest SSA). Now, she needs financial help to keep going for the estimated 4-5 weeks until she gets a response. (If the response is negative, she's in trouble and she knows it, but if she is accepted, then she can figure out how to find a living situation that's affordable for her once she loses the condo.)
If you can help at all, now or in a week or two or three, please continue below the fold to learn how. She is so close to being okay, and even small amounts can help her eat, feed pets, keep the lights and water on, get the expired car registration renewed -- all life's expenses that do not wait just because there is no income. And if you have nothing to spare, please consider helping with recs, republishes, mention in open threads, and social media shares and tweets, to help us reach others who might have more resources.
Thanks to donors last week, including a generous matching-gift offer, she was able to pay the portion of the utility bills that had to be paid by today to avoid shutoff. But there are more bills out there, and more needs and expenses.
Now, we have a $300 matching-funds offer from another anonymous kossack, so the first $300 given today gets doubled! Many thanks to that donor!!!
If you can spare any money without harming yourself, her first choice is PayPal because that gets her the funds quickly. Many thanks to JekyllnHyde for these instructions:
How You Can Help aitchdee
If you have a PayPal account and have never used it to send money to anyone, it is really simple.
- Go to PayPal.com.
- Click Send Money to Family and Friends.
- Enter aitchdee's email address (which is twilithour@mac.com) and amount you are sending. The sender's name is visible to the recipient.
For those of us who can't deal with PayPal, she still has a GoFundMe page. They are much slower to release funds to her, so please use this only if you cannot use PayPal.
GOFUNDME
And if you'd prefer, she's made a new Amazon wishlist with non-perishable foods and household items she needs (pet food at the top!) Please use this link, and not the one from the older diary. If you buy from the wishlist, they can ship to her directly. If you'd like to send essentials not through Amazon, please kosmail aitchdee for her shipping address, and let her know what you're sending so she can take it off her wishlist manually.
AMAZON WISHLIST
If you'd like to send money and cannot deal with any means of doing so other than sending a paper check by USPS,
1) Please consider instead buying and mailing an inexpensive postal money order. aitchdee could cash these at any post office without a fee. Thanks to Most Awesome Nana for this idea!
2) If it needs to be a check, please kosmail aitchdee for her information. We list this choice last because she no longer has a bank account, so cashing the check costs her a fee of 10% of the check value. Nonetheless, it's more money than she'd have had otherwise, so if you need to use this method, of course she is very happy to have your help.
As always, recs, tips, republishes, mention in open threads, FB shares, and tweets also help bring more eyes to the diary and thus more potential help. Many, many thanks.