tzippi- foodstamps took about a month, medicaid, right away (by the next enrollment period-like with all insurances)
sjsinnyc- who ever said you have to support yourself off one income? and i mentioned before that the amount of hishtadlut one does is according to how he feels secure. some people feel like they want to do those extra side jobs as a form of hishtadlut to feel more secure. hashem helps everybody. period. everything hashem created is for us to do reson hashem- including foodstamps. i know someone who had a bris and they lived in a different state while their whole family, extended family lived in a different state. when they had a simcha, at that exact time, a new airline opened up selling tickets for 30 dollars- no joke, maybe even cheaper. everyone came in for the simcha. including extended family and people who wouldn’t have came otherwise. the whole plane was that family. it even reached the news stations.guess what? right after that simcha, the airline closed down, and never opened again. hashem created this world to do his torah and mitzvot, right? and- what’s HUD?