Updated 10/9/24

I received the EMAILED “Notice of Claim Acknowledgement – Claim# G202322478-1 – Loss Date: 1/1/2023”

So professional! I am posting the email and additional info in the COMMENTS.

Updated 10/3/24

It took days to write this notice of claim, it is too long, yet so much is missing.  Read it so many times and there are still typos.  All too often I can’t tell the difference between “it” and “if.”

I didn’t even attempt to find and organize the countless AHCCCS and DES mailings stored in various plastic tubs along with other mail I can’t read without a magnifying glass.

The State has 60 days to respond and if they don’t respond, I can file a lawsuit. 

I expect to be ignored because they know that by definition, applicants for AHCCCS and DES benefits are too poor to hire lawyers.

They also know that there are no Arizona lawyers taking cases like this on contingency.

We have no power because we’re not wealthy.

I don’t want to die like Leo:

https://highdesertdirt.com/blog/2015/08/18/leo-goding-12-2-42-to-7-30-2015/

I sent the link to this post to Sony Reyna, Deputy 105:

10/2/24

You are the straw that broke the camel’s back:

[This URL]

I’ll try to send the link to politicians and media etc. as time permits.


NOTICE OF CLAIM AGAINST THE STATE OF ARIZONA

CLAIMANT INFORMATION

Christine Baker
PO Box 858
Meadview, AZ 86444

[phone #, DOB and email redacted]

FACTS

1) 2020 / 2021 Unemployment

The Arizona unemployment website was extremely difficult to use and I encountered so many problems. The required ID verification almost killed me. No email support. Hour after hour of holding on the phone, only to be eventually disconnected.

I was unable to submit the required work search reports on the unemployment website from hell. When I finally got so someone on the phone, I was told to complete the claims offline, upload the completed forms, and that my claims would be manually reviewed.

I never got paid for these uploaded claims.

Having to use this dysfunctional unemployment website and the awful telephone support caused such severe PTSD, I was unable to continue fighting for my benefits without risking death. I could not take more abuse and stress.

Quite likely, I’m alive today because I received an inheritance that allowed me to recover and not worry about how to pay my bills for a while.

I recently discovered that the Dept. of Labor is still waiting for Gov. Hobbs (D) to accept the 2021 $300/week federal COVID unemployment benefits refused by former Gov. Ducey (R).

Several times I inquired with Gov. Hobbs’ office why she has not claimed and distributed these benefits.

Eventually, Sonya Reyna, Deputy 105, called me in response to my failed attempts to get an answer from Gov. Hobbs. Ms. Reyna had no idea why she was asked to call me and informed me that she was unable to speak for Gov. Hobbs regarding the COVID benefits, but advised that she would process my unpaid unemployment claims from 2021.

We spoke on the telephone about my current bank account and Ms. Reyna emailed a listing of unemployment payments I had received.

Next, I received NO reply to my three (3) emails to Ms. Reyna in about two weeks and a courtesy VM for Ms. Reyna on 9/30/24 when I attempted to confirm her receipt of my emails.

Gov. Hobbs continues to ignore me and refuses to answer this simple question:

“How many people have to set themselves on fire outside your office to get a response?”

Gov. Hobbs’ apparent answer: “At least one.”

2) DES and AHCCCS 2023 – present

My fall 2023 AHCCCS renewal was declined as described in my post:
https://repairthebrain.com/social-security-fraud-this-is-how-they-try-to-kill-us/

In late December 2023, I discovered a most likely cancerous tumor on my leg and I had no Medicare Part B coverage as I could not afford to pay over half of my Social Security for Part B.

In February 2024 I took my computer to the Kingman DES office to apply again for AHCCCS. My request to conduct the interview at the DES office was declined.

Someone called me on my cell phone during my 60-mile drive home. The interview was conducted while I was sitting in the car instead of at a desk with my computer so that I could provide accurate information and take notes.

It was not possible to communicate electronically in writing and to set up an appointment for the interview. Applicants are expected to sit and wait day after day after day after day at their desks all day long for someone to call.

The contempt for my kind, the working old and poor, could not be greater!

I advised that my income changed and in April I submitted my Q1 2024 P & L.

I was again ignored and declined for full AHCCCS benefits.  The State started to pay for Medicare Part B, but I was not eligible for the Medicare Advantage plan providing vision, dental, transportation, and supplements benefits.

I don’t have it in me to make more phone calls only to have to deal with uneducated and untrained state employees after hours of aggravating holds and most frustrating automated phone systems.

At times the dysfunctional automated phone system refused to verify me and there was NO option to be transferred to a human being. So much frustration.

One time three separate mailings from AHCCCS and DES were postmarked on the same day, but they were not delivered for at least a week.

I appealed and despite my repeated pleas for email communications, the notice of the appeal hearing was snail-mailed, I did not receive it and found out about the hearing when I received the notice of dismissal for failure to appear.

I appealed the dismissal.

Sent emails, talked to people on the phone, and got VMs … I have no idea what’s going on, am guessing more snail mail got lost.

Despite numerous requests, AHCCCS failed to provide any information about the appeal process.

How am I to prepare for a hearing? What will happen in this hearing? What are the procedures?

The DES and AHCCCS websites were so dysfunctional with no way to communicate.

I searched the internet but found nothing.  Maybe due to my poor vision?

My requests for assistance from Gov. Hobbs’ office resulted in more harassment with countless phone calls from various numbers with spoofed Caller ID – either hangups or VMs with little or no useful information. More phone call assaults.

When I somehow got an email and inquired how I am supposed to live on $298/month in Social Security, an unidentified state employee advised me to hire a financial advisor!

WT#*$#^@!….?????

It was about July when I was again assaulted with letters and phone calls by the DES for some kind of verification. I made the mistake of pushing the YES button to indicate a change in income using the automatic phone system.

After numerous calls and almost ready to kill myself (the funeral hold music during long holds was so incredibly depressing), I got to inform some person on the telephone that the AC at the Airbnb broke and that I would have NO income from the rental.

They demanded more information.

WT*&%84*!!!

I obviously had no savings to pay for a new $8 – 10,000 central AC and I don’t qualify for financing due to my low credit score (defaulted on credit cards in 2020 due to the Covid shutdowns and travel ban) and insufficient income.

Due to my corneal ulcers, it was very difficult and extremely time-consuming to work on my client’s Sunnova Solar Fraud BBB complaint:

https://sunnova-solar-fraud.org/kb/bbb/2024-6-12-sunnova-bbb-complaint-failure-to-repair-and-using-incorrect-lower-guaranteed-production-schedule/

The DES stopped my about $20/month SNAP benefits. Aside from my online Sunnova work, I was dealing with bookings, cancellations, researching ACs and mini splits, electrical codes, looking for someone to run electrical in the crawlspace full of rat shit, installing a window AC, and then a mini split to salvage what little income I got from upcoming bookings – while my eyes were hurting, watering and red from eye strain and my blood pressure often around 195/130 from so much stress and frustration.

When I had the corneal ulcers I blocked all future dates at Airbnb and VRBO, but kept the existing reservations because I could not afford the cancellation fees.

Arizona allows corporations to defraud us with impunity and I’m continually fighting corporate fraud. See

https://christinebaker.org/2024/08/10/vrbo-fraud-lies-documented-euthanasia-please/

I’ve had to pay for help and incurred debts, hoping that I could get back to earning a few hundred dollars a month to at least pay for the ongoing expenses at the rental house.

It is a miracle that I have not yet suffered a heart attack or stroke, although the apparently permanent eye damage maliciously inflicted by DES and AHCCCS and the resulting decrease in income may well kill me.

I cannot survive on $298 Social Security.

Wasting more time and energy on AHCCCS and DES prevents me from earning a living and it is a suicide attempt.

Writing this notice and having to relive the stress and frustration, the malicious abuse, and phone call assaults makes my blood boil.

The Arizona DES and AHCCCS websites and procedures are MALICIOUSLY designed to force applicants to abandon their efforts to get health care and EBT benefits or to risk DEATH.

DAMAGES AND INJURIES

1) I could not afford to seek treatment for a likely cancerous tumor on my leg discovered in late 2023.

I had to research skin cancer and treat myself. The STRESS!

2) The ongoing existential stress and frustration with the dysfunctional AHCCCS and DES websites and inability to get approved for vision, dental and transportation benefits almost left me blind and caused possibly permanent damage to my eyes.

Memorial Day weekend I almost went blind in my left eye.

My left eye hurt so bad I could not remove my contact lens for a couple of days. A neighbor drove me to an emergency eye appointment in Kingman (120-mile round trip) the following Tuesday and I was diagnosed with two corneal ulcers in my left eye.

I had to pay neighbors or for gasoline (10 mpg) and co-payments for numerous doctor visits. I couldn’t afford the prescription for contact lenses and glasses, and could not work at the rental or outdoors, but was still desperately trying to continue to earn a few dollars with my online work, causing more eye problems.

Despite the State’s extraordinary efforts to stress, frustrate, and depress me to death, I still don’t want to kill myself or walk into the desert like Elliot. Sadly, the State approved Mohave County’s, Crisis Line’s and others’ refusals to assist and examine Elliot in violation of Arizona law:

https://repairthebrain.com/az-mohave-county-notice-of-claim-stop-the-extermination-of-mentally-ill-homeless/

While I was lucky and did not go blind in my left eye, my eyes are now extremely sensitive, water, and hurt when exposed to vinegar (cleaning), dust, wind, smoke, or any kind of irritant.

Wearing glasses negatively affects my ability to read and walk. I still trip and stumble a lot because the glasses cause distorted vision and contact lenses irritate my eyes.

For many years I had my driving contact lens in one eye and a reading lens in the other. It worked so well!

  • I now need to use a magnifying glass to read most paper documents.
  • It is extremely difficult to work online.

I can read in browsers by zooming in, but I often have to use a magnifying glass to read in apps without zoom, such as email, Quicken for my finances, my note organizer, file manager, and other apps required to run a business or to work online.

How can I clean the vacation rental I manage (I don’t own it) when I can’t see well and can’t use cleaning products without irritating my eyes?

I opened up my booking calendar and lowered the nightly Airbnb rate to $119. I have NO bookings.

RELIEF

I am seeking:

1) $200,000 + $5,000/month.

2) Arizona state-funded EUTHANASIA for the poor and ill.

Please let us die with dignity when we can no longer afford to live, cannot sustain the excruciating efforts required to qualify for Arizona benefits or don’t want to be abused and tortured in a nursing home.

 

10/2/24 ________________

Christine Baker