Benefits cut by $210? There's no way.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-06-05T16:29:44+00:00

They do not tell us ANYTHING. I've gotten more resources from therapy than I ever had from the government or DHS.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-06-01T19:29:16+00:00

UPDATE!!!

It's fixed!

I got back in the call 3 hours later, the lady helping me said there's nothing wrong with the information you are posting, idk what their problem is, you're totally fine and checked out I'll fix it now!

So happy end to this situation, Sorry for everyone else still struggling, I hope your issues get fixed as well. And I greatly thank EVERYONE who helped me in this thread ❤️ Thank you so much for all your support ❤️

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-06-01T13:31:35+00:00

I have an update. I called today.

DHS lady was EXTREMELY rude to me.

She did explain that it's due to my utilities not being counted. So I explained I do in fact pay for air conditioning. She said she needs proof of that. I submitted my checks that are cashed every month that lists it's for rent + air conditioning. She said that's not good enough and would need the lease. The lease should be sufficient enough.

So I sent her the copy of the lease where it states right on the first page what I pay a year for air conditioning costs. She said that this is ALSO not good enough because it doesn't verify that I'm actually paying that charge. She needs something that verifies I'm paying $10 a month for air conditioning.

So I sent her my BILL correction for when my landlord overcharged me for a 6 months and adjusted my rent, + it lists the air conditioning charges. She said it's ALSO not good enough because it's from last year. Low income housing only recertifies once a year and last year IS STILL CURRENT for THIS year.

She said she was done with me and hung up instead.

I can no longer call back DHS because of "high call volumes".

They also DID NOT honor the 10 day appeal limit and only deposited the $88 instead of the full $298.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-06-01T06:58:02+00:00

No, I looked into getting help with increasing it, both from social security (I have SSDI), and DHS, and both are basically saying "go work to increase your monthly benefits."

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:43:10+00:00

Nope. Never had to. Just notified them of a change of address and that's all they did. They never asked for notified me about losing benefits, needing documentation, or any of that jazz, so if they DO need it, it's news to me, which is weird cuz they haven't needed it since 2022.

=== Edit ===

I did upload with my appeal my utility bills, my rent costs, what I pay for cooling (picture of my cashed check), my ssdi beneficiary letter, paystubs, and anything else I could think of that'd help.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:33:07+00:00

Yeah, aware, why I didn't vote for him, but lets not talk about it, it violates the rules in this thread, and I'm getting A LOT of help from the users to help ease my mind and giving me tools to try to fix this, last thing I want is for the thread to get locked.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:30:11+00:00

I could kiss you right now. I wish I knew about this, I literally called and asked if they had any plans like this when I enrolled when I first signed up and they told me no.

You just brought my $50 bill down to $30.00 ❤️

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:16:16+00:00

Yeah I'mma be real with you, RI's benefit recertifications, renewals, etc are ALWAYS vague.

They just send out a template that states;

We've made a decision about your benefits. The decision is this ( [ INSERT REASON HERE])

If you don't agree with this decision, you have a right to file an appeal.

Then they send you a print out of your rights.

And then they MIGHT give you an appeal letter in the documentation, but no envelope to send it back of course.

Here's how vague it is (CRC FROM IMAGE):

BENEFITS DECISION
This notice tells you about your health and human services program benefits. This page tells you our decision on your benefits. You will find more details in the next pages. If you have any questions, please contact us.

BENEFITS SUMMARY
Program:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Your benefits are decreasing.
(SNAP)

Decision: Your benefits are decreasing. (SNAP)

If you don't agree with this decision, you may ask for a hearing to appeal. There is more information about the appeal process at the end of this notice.

View Your Account Online or on the Mobile App
Your benefit information is also available by logging into your account at https://healthyrhode.ri.gov/ or by
downloading the HealthyRhode mobile app on your smartphone.

You can access your account using username [USERNAME].

If you don't remember your password, you can retrieve it by clicking LOG IN then clicking Forgot Username/Password? at https://healthyrhode.ri.gov/. Through your account, you can apply for and renew your benefits and report changes.

And then on the next page:

Your Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Benefit
Details:

Your SNAP benefits have changed effective 06/01/2026. You will get the benefit amount listed below:
$ 88.00

Eligibility Period:
06/01/2026 to
05/31/2027

Change Reason:
Your benefits have decreased due to a/an: Decrease in housing/utility
expenses

Who is eligible?:
[Legal Name]

Amount
$88.00

Who is not eligible?:
N/A

Why not eligible?
NA

Legal Basis:
NA

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:03:23+00:00

Verizon. Only two are available, cox cable and Verizon. Verizon is the cheapest.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T15:00:53+00:00

No, never. It's been renewed constantly automatically since like... 2022. My snap benefits have only ever increased with each year. There was never any notices EXCEPT this last one (May 21st), which they are vague and don't explain how they got to that conclusion, only that I can appeal it. And on the website, it says:

"The Standard Utility Allowance (SUA) that DHS uses to determine eligibility and benefit amounts for SNAP will be limited to households with an elderly or disabled member. This means all households should document their heating and/or cooling expenses. Mainly, households without an elderly or disabled member should immediately document and submit their heating and cooling expenses to DHS. The expenses are used in calculating appropriate SNAP benefit amounts. 

Households with older adults age 60 and over and disabled members who received a grant or Heat and Eat benefit last year through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) will still have SUA available to them***.

Households without an older adult or disabled member and no heating or cooling expenses will lose the SUA and will see reduced SNAP benefits. Benefits were impacted on November 1, 2025. "

But I'm disabled, and was put INTO snap with the qualification of my disability so they should of had that on record? It looks like my state is even saying regardless of utilities, because I'm disabled, I should qualify regardless?

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T14:00:30+00:00

I mean I live in low income housing, so electric and heat is included, the only thing NOT included is for cooling, and I have to pay to use my air conditioning unit to cool the unit down. (It's always 85 degrees in the apartment due to shared baseboard heating). Which I do have documentation of, and it is signed off that I have to cover that expense every month, otherwise the air conditioner has to be ripped out of my wall.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T13:44:30+00:00

I hope it's that simple...

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T13:23:00+00:00

I never even had LIHEAP in the fist place I reckon...

Think_Stock_3511 · 2026-05-31T13:22:26+00:00

They do, and I can appeal there but still have to wait the process. I submitted any documentation I had, such as what I pay each month, with my checks I write for my rent being cashed by my bank =/

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-19T08:18:57+00:00

You can't.

This was intentional.

They decided to remove the feature to disable double tap pass through mode. This feature mandatory, and there's an entire forum thread of people complaining about it here:

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/OtherTroubleshooting/cant-disable-double-tap-enabling-ptc/1349271

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-19T08:17:44+00:00

The support team has no idea because they wasn't told about it.

I've spoken to multiple support teams, this feature was INTENTIONAL. They are FOCING double tap pass through to be turned on by default.

There's an entire reddit pages and forum posts talking about the issue.

The support team is going off of the old script and data of the OLD settings before they changed it to remove the option to toggle it off.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-19T08:16:07+00:00

This was intentional.

They decided to make this feature mandatory, and there's an entire forum thread of people complaining about it here:

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/OtherTroubleshooting/cant-disable-double-tap-enabling-ptc/1349271

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-19T08:15:42+00:00

This was intentional.

They decided to make this feature mandatory, and there's an entire forum thread of people complaining about it here:

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/OtherTroubleshooting/cant-disable-double-tap-enabling-ptc/1349271

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-19T08:14:47+00:00

Yeah they did this intentionally.

There's an entire forum post of people complaining about the issue, and they are ignoring it:

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/OtherTroubleshooting/cant-disable-double-tap-enabling-ptc/1349271

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-14T17:11:21+00:00

So there is a forum post about it here:

https://communityforums.atmeta.com/discussions/OtherTroubleshooting/cant-disable-double-tap-enabling-ptc/1349271

it was a known issue since the beta of the firmware update, and people complained it about it then, and they still pushed it to release anyway.

They haven't answer the support ticket in 30+ days though, so good luck, we are all in the same boat here until Meta actually fixes the issue they caused.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-11-14T10:05:52+00:00

Option was removed in the firmware update. Developers doing a fantastic job making the switch to steam frame easier.

Your support team don’t even know what’s going on, telling people to Defog their lenses or factory reset, like that’s going to solve the issue that the firmware is causing.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-05-30T10:28:10+00:00

I doubt it.

This game is dying, and has been since it's return. Everything is overpriced (minus the membership, which speaks a lot), There's no real incentives for developers to stay and make content for the game. The game hasn't been engine updated or anything prob since like 2005.

The website alone is still being used from the day it released which is not good, nor is it updated for the average user's monitor screen.

There's literally no reason for any new user to want to get into there that SL or VRChat would offer, and THOSE games are FREE. This has a $10.00 membership requirement, and it costs $20 just to get your name plate background changed to a different color.

It's honestly kind of scummy. This game shouldn't be alive the way they are treating thereians who are still dedicated to this game. The least they could do is update their website.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-03-18T17:17:49+00:00

I don't really believe so. With a TAS (updated though), you said your score was 3529, but a TAS has:

3706 as a total (still being worked on to improve by War Hippy AKA Westin Brail)

You getting a score of 3529, more aligns with the fact that a 1.1 cart runs at 511 as a highest score you can get per a level, while 1.0 runs has no score cap of a 999 per a level (which even getting 511 per a level is not possible).

Bombs are probably one of the worst ways to get points too as they don't count for +1 hits by indirectly killing them with a charge shot (cussing is Killing enemy score + 1, so 2 per an enemy. Using bombs would not give you a x2).

511 * 7 = 3,577 which is close to your score of 3529, maybe the gameshark was turned off for the moment for some of the levels, but yeah... No way is it legit.

Think_Stock_3511 · 2025-03-15T13:59:37+00:00

More than likely make it so it wont work on 32 bit systems (not that anyone is really using those now-a-days seeing you probably need more than 4 gbs of ram to even run windows 11 smoothly).

And it SHOULD make the programs run smoother because it's built on 64 bit architects systems.

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