<prompt> Human: Posting on a throwaway because my husband reads reddit. As ashamed and reluctant as I am to discuss receiving government aid on reddit, the fact is I am on disability. I have recently been informed that my disability benefits will be cut in half, which presents a problem for my two-person and three cat family. With my back issues I cant hold a traditional job e.g. sitting in a computer chair for even ten minutes is unbearable; lifting, bending and so forth is physically impossible, as is standing for any length of time but I have picked up what side jobs I can such as babysitting and petsitting, though those are very inconsistent and often pose the same difficulties as a regular job would. We have no debt or student loans, and no kids a decision we arrived at mutually. We have only one credit card and we pay it off monthly. But we both have cars and the associated costs, we both need to eat, and our rent is not cheap. I have medical bills as well that come up regularly. I regularly read reatcheapandhealthy for recipe ideas, and I was seriously considering getting into food reclamation aka dumpster diving until I found out theres a single line in my city ordinance code that makes it illegal. Im pretty desperate to help bring our costs down, but I just dont know how. I dont know where to start. I dont buy new clothes for myself, and anything we need I try to use craigslist first. But I want to do more, and bring our bills down, because I am married to an incredibly nice, generous person who does not deserve to live hand-to-mouth because of me. Please, if you have any advice for someone who is totally clueless about financeseconomics, on how to conserve funds or use rewards cards intelligently, etc, let me know.I really appreciate any advice you all might have. Assistant: Why is your disability income being cut?Human: I.. dont know. I received a letter stating that due to a clerical error after 12 years.. it will be reduced to a little more than half of what it was. Im really scared.  <response>: You need to figure out why. At this point you cant even say if the benefit reduction itself is a clerical error... 