Nadya Suleman the octuplets mom is on food stamps but says its not welfare
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
February 9, 2009 11:23pm CST
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29110391/
ok when i heard she had all those kids and was living at her parents house, filed bankruptcy on two houses and etc etc i was at least ok with the fact that she wasnt using the system and having kids when she couldnt afford them since all her friends came out saying how she paid for everything..
well she gets food stamps and 3 of her kids get disability.. now i dont have a problem with the disability because obviously that cant be helped and if you have it you need assistance.. god knows i know! but she is saying she wasnt lying about not being on welfare because food stamps isnt welfare.. what?!?! i thought it was considered welfare?!?! and she and her friends all portrayed her as being able to afford kids but yet she cant afford to feed them?!?!
sigh.. i wonder how she paid for fertility treatments if she had no money for food?? what do you think about all of this? and im not dissing people that use and need the system but i would think if you were already bad off you woudlnt spend X amount to get pregnant with a mass amount of kids that will just end up costing you even more than you can afford.. but thats just me.. do you think food stamps = welfare??
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@bwaybaby (903)
• United States
10 Feb 09
Yeah, this woman is a little crazy. She gets some sort of disability for being injured a few years ago on a job, and apparently two or three of her kids get disability. She's on food stamps. She lives with her parents and apparently filed bankrupcy not long ago. She doesn't have a job. And yet she has the money to pay for plastic surgery and IVF??? I have no problem with people wanting big families, but they should be able to afford it. I know it might be terrible of me, but I really think child services should get involved. She can't take care of 14 kids. $490 a month will not feed them.
And, yes, I would consider food stamps to be some sort of form of welfare.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
10 Feb 09
i dont understand people.. they want kids and they rush and have them and dont make sure that they can provide for them.. im not saying you have to be rich in order to have kids but be able to afford grocerys at least!
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@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
11 Feb 09
Hmm... if those aid she is getting is not considered welfare, did any one ask her what is HER definition of welfare?
Imagine, she cannot even afford to feed herself, let alone her kids. Imagine, she needs $1.5 to $3 million to bring her kids home from the hospital. How is she going to fork out that kinda money?
Sigh... the things some people do! I just cannot understand!
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
12 Feb 09
i would feel awful about not being able to afford the kids i got and being a burden on my family!! i wouldnt go out and have 8 more!
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
10 Feb 09
they are saying now that it was a mistake to give her the fertility treatment,
geez if you are on food stamps you cannot afford all these babies,
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
12 Feb 09
i wanna know where she got the money to do it in the first place..
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
9 Mar 09
I come from Europe. What I think has to be decided is how an American person gets food stamps. I wonder if it is means tested. If so I think many people would describe it as welfare. People have different opinions and Nadya disagrees that she is on welfare. If a mother has six children and she is poor she is unlikely to go for fertility treatment to have another baby. I think with the disability payments Nadya didn't feel all that poor. But instead of getting a baby or twins she got octuplets. That must have been quite a surprise for her I imagine. If a couple have quads then society is kind to them. However she is a single mother so some people are nasty towards her. I think she is really unusual and say good luck to her an all fourteen children.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
9 Mar 09
you have to fall in a low income and have dependants and not work (well usually not work) the fertility doctor broke a rule on how many embryos they put in her.. the rule of thumb with her age is 2 and he put in 6 with the knowledge she would not terminate any extra fetuses so he really was out of line in doing that many.. what ever her settlement and disability payments didnt pay her mom paid for and now her mom is losing her house because she couldnt afford to make the payments on it for 10 months and feed nadya and her kids.. i know nadya got a settlement from her job before 2000 i think for being shot at work but i dont think she is unable to work.. so if she could work then its pretty screwed up that her mom paid for everything and is losing everything because of her 
@newtondak (3946)
• United States
10 Feb 09
I'm assuming that since she's getting all this assistance that she is actually an American citizen?
The accounts I have read say that she doesn't see Food Stamps and SSI as being public assistance. She has also said that for the time being, her only income is from student loans and that is what she will use to raise her children.
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