What are we elderly people going to do when our income is less than $500? My income is less than $500. It is $464 — Social Security $324 and SSI is $140 — that is too much for general assistance to give me help.

Most rent exceeds $350 for apartments and landlords want security (deposits). Movers are high. I want downstairs apartments. I walk with a walker; $350 a month gives me $114 to pay for the other things — there are water, telelphone, cable if I want to use my TV, food stamps last about 2.5 weeks, over-the-counter drugs, Medicaid, clothes, and I need someone to come and help me once or twice a week on things. How can a person do it on $114 a week?

Subsidy house wants a security (deposit) of $100 and if you have a cat or a dog there is $100 on each one of them. The ones with the highest income get those. What can a poor person do? Please help them. Write to your congressman, your senator and the president and tell them that the elderly that get a low income need more money to live on. People with big wages can pay it but we can’t. Olive Blanchard Skowhegan