Good morning, dear lotters. The problem of paying bills when you are older.
By marguicha
@marguicha (230365)
Chile
March 23, 2020 8:33am CST
It is very important for me to begin my day mylotting. I don´t feel isolated at all.
At the most, I ask myself what will I talk about.
At this hour I have the news on and the amount of people infected keep mounting. Most of them are in my city, by far the biggest one in my country.
By what I hear, the worst problem happens when young people do stupid things and when old people with low incomes come to take their retirement pensions. My own retirement pension, even though it is not much, goes to my Bank account. And I can pay the bills either from it or online.
Now in my country, many of the lower income families have bigger TV sets than mine, bigger and better smartphones and the children have all tablets. Yet there is a sort of gap where the older people don´t have access to all this because they don´t know how to use them.
That is a side problem that is not easy to surmount. 
What is happening in your country?
What is happening in your country?8 people like this
8 responses
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
My country was absolutely 3rd world as education goes 50 to 60 years ago. Leticia had 2 years of schooling. She is incapable of having a Bank account or paying many of her bills online.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
@LadyDuck She is very smart in many ways, but at 67 years of age, she is not capable of learning new things.
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@LadyDuck (502886)
• Italy
23 Mar 20
@marguicha Some regions of the south of Italy are still like that.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
The lady that has worked with me for 20 years did not have more that 2 years or schooling. She haerdly knows how to read. In my country schooling started in the next generation.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
Leticia, the lady that has worked at my house for 20 years, went to school until 2nd grade. It was then another world in my country. Now her family has Smart TV and her son put channels in Spanish. She is not able to read a subtitled movie. She is very intelligent but completely ignorant in a lot of ways.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
Here we have problems with many of our older people who have lower incomes and little education.
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@JudyEv (382655)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Mar 20
@marguicha I can imagine it's very difficult for some of them.
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
23 Mar 20
Letiia is terrified by them. The only thing she uses id the cellphone and only to call.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
23 Mar 20
Bills will always be there no matter what happens and what doesn't
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
24 Mar 20
I think Chinese tends to save more and spend less since we feel safer to have money to cope with any accidents. But it seems that this habit has changed for the youngs. They spend more than they can earn and this is the problem their have to depend on their credit cards. It will be a big problem because of the coronavirus situation.
@LindaOHio (222896)
• United States
23 Mar 20
Seniors, including myself, are surprisingly tech savvy. They have computers, pay their bills online and have their Social Security automatically deposited into their checking accounts. My husband and I have basic flip phones and don't have a need for a fancy smartphone.
