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    'You don't want to live anymore.' California's seniors living in poverty struggle without retirement savings

    by Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times Oct 17, 2022 5 minutes
    Unhoused senior Linda Fett, 61, sits in her room that Supportive Services has provided for her at the Union Rescue Mission in Skid Row in Los Angeles on Oct. 12, 2022.

    At 61, Linda Fett arrived at the Union Rescue Mission on skid row this year without any savings. After her divorce in 1992, the long-term caregiver used what little money she had to pay bills, including car payments and other expenses, in order to live independently.

    Fett now receives about $220 a month from the county's general relief program, with $150 going into the Union Rescue Mission's Gateway Project, which provides short-term housing for those on the verge of homelessness. That leaves her about $70 a month to pay for basic necessities.

    "The biggest hurdle I kept coming across while being a caregiver was that rents were high, even back East," she said. "I kept driving around to find affordable housing … I didn't really have much of a savings. I lived on my paycheck."

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