Dear All, I don't know whether the following info is specific to CA.  Here, for folks who have "casual income" -- self-employed people whose icnomes vary wildly from month to month -- the total income for the year is figured on the amount earned in teh prior year (as recorded on one's federal tax return).  Checks that have arrived in the current year are, of course, also taken into account.  This makes returning to work as, say, a writer much less of a fiscal disaster as it could otherwise been; it is why a "sliding scale" can apply while benefits are being reduced.  (This is much better than having the agency multiply your highest-income amount by 12, & proclaiming that to be your current-year annualized income.)  I learned this by readign the applicable regulations, which I don't think a person not trained as a lawyer could do too easily.  SO, if you want to kow whether this applies in your State, you'll have to ask your benefits worker at the social services agency.  Good luck!

Yours in Him, Deb

California seems to be the leader for putting nonsense wording in their documents. Their state income tax forms are a very good example. The Fed forms are easy to do compared to Calif.

I'm sure there probably is a term for it, but they all seem to be written in such a way as that one part of a paragraph cancels out anything said in another part of the same paragraph. I can read something several times and still wonder "What did that say"?

E

"George Orwell       1984"

The term is called "Double-speak" and was a term that George Orwell called what the government says when it speaks.

Sounds logical to me too. We don't understand what they are saying and they can't explain it either. Sounds like double-speak to me.

I hear that when listening to someone speaking before Congress or giving a speech. It must be a very well developed art form of speech - to answer and yet say nothing at the same time. I wish I had learned how to do that. Edey or E