Pearl - June 08, 2025


The Dark Side of Child Support Nobody Talks About w⧸ @thisisshah


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1 minute

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Word count

273

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22

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1

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In this episode, I talk about some of the crazy things I used to do as a social worker in the early days of the agency, and how I dealt with it. I also talk a little bit about my time as a caseworker.

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00:00:00.000 So that's all kinds of wacky stuff I'd see. You'd see all kinds of crazy things. I, you know,
00:00:04.340 I saw a lady, this lady had like 15 kids and she was running some kind of scam. I don't know what 1.00
00:00:10.440 it was, but I think it had something to do with immigration back then. Um, because the guy, I
00:00:16.020 don't know, like the guy, it was like an undocumented person and she was there and she
00:00:19.960 was having kids with people. And I don't know, some, I couldn't put my finger on it, but it was
00:00:23.940 just super strange. And I kept trying to tell this guy, Hey, if you need a genetic test, um,
00:00:28.600 You might want to ask for that.
00:00:30.000 And he's just like, she's like bossing him around and trying to say, no, just sign.
00:00:34.200 I'm like, hey, you got to be quiet.
00:00:35.760 I need to tell him this.
00:00:36.940 He needs to make a decision.
00:00:38.000 So I would see strange things.
00:00:41.820 I would see social security numbers.
00:00:43.600 Like sometimes we would see two incomes coming in for one social security number.
00:00:47.120 And usually it was because an undocumented person was using this person's social security 0.92
00:00:51.440 number to work under.
00:00:52.240 So it would show this person's working two full-time jobs.
00:00:55.560 And we'd be like, oh, that's weird.
00:00:56.960 Like that's not the case.
00:00:57.960 So there's all kinds of wacky things with child support.
00:01:02.060 I mean, there'd be welfare fraud,
00:01:04.580 international cases were another thing.
00:01:08.560 It's a system that you think is simple,
00:01:11.580 but it's incredibly complex and technical.
00:01:14.060 Like it takes like a year to really understand how it works.