What is it like to live on ssi?

Get on section 8 and tell section 8 your incom so u can afford to pay rent. Try assurance or cope or a program to help u find help. research for help programs,ask around, call your health insurance card number for help setting u up with help programs......try everything. as long as u also show proof that you are paying rent than you should not have to worry about them lowering it. keep your apartment/house lease papers and rent payed receipt. if your not living on your own have family write a fake check wich is a check u write on and it makes a receipt and then have family write down a letter with their signatures to proof that you r paying them rent and i would tell them $500-$600 or more to keep your money going. ssi has a scale of how much u have left after paying bills and basis it on if they should lower it or keep it at that amount. play smart. I had letters written from family with sigs and check receipts and they never knew that i had extra money. if you pull out a certain amount out of ur bank evre month and keep it looking like the same amount each time they shouldnt know about it. I think they check your bank so keep up the pattern. and dont save it in a savings account because they will check that and lower ur money. so save it in a lock box out of reach. If you dont live with your relatives you would just give them proof of your rent and house/apartment and bills payed. simple. If they ask for more and u live with ur parents just tell ur parents to take fake check keep reciept to give to ssi, and or ask for relatives to pay u back to save for an apartment/house or just do the letter and reciept from the check u wrote to ur parents and just dont have ur parents send it....just keep the money and save it in a lock box.lol thats what i did ...hope i explained it right.