MY ATM CARD WAS STOLEN ! I HAVE NO MONEY !

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This morning , trying to get my SSDI money out of a Bank Of America ATM ~ MY ATM CARD GOT EATEN BY THE ATM ! IT DID NOT RETURN IT , only putting on an " Out of Order " screen up AFTER I had put it in ! !! !! !! !!
I tried to get the bank to help me , to cut it short , THEY DID NOT GET MY CARD BACK ! !! !! !! !! !!
I have NO paper money , whatsoever , now ! I WAS GOING TO START REPLACING MY LOST SHOES/CLOTHES/BEDSHEETS TODAY , I HAD PLANNED TO ! It was already an especially long wait for the " first of the month " , and my clothes , as I have detailed in recent posts , have declined into an EMERGENCY situation .
Now I have no card , and NO MONEY !
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ? Would the SS office give me money now ?
Again , I had had my amount of clothes dwindele down through my problems , I was hoping to-day to rrstore them to about the level of two weeks ago , I had it all planned out .

Sir if you have a bank of america account, i think they should recover or give you another copy of your card. can you access online banking or your account got removed completely?

...I do not have a BoA account , I was just using the card , on which my SSDI money is deposited (Or , perhaps I should say , which accesses the account that the money is deposited into ?) , to get it out of that BoA ATM . It had worked before but I had always?? used a different ATM in that bank of ATMs ! Now...

Contact your Social Security office immediately to have the old card canceled and a new card issued.

Yeah that might help, or call the bank and explain what happened, I know you said you tried that but if its their atm they should be able to get the card...so maybe if you talk to someone else they'll be more helpful.

^^^^^What AspieUtah said, as soon as you possibly can. This can be resolved, but you have to let them know about it ASAP.

For future help, sometime an ATM machine will eat the card because the card's strip or chip has been compromised and damaged, often by proximity to a magnetic field.

There are all kinds of reasons a card gets eaten by the machine, but damage or being demagnetized is one of them and it happened to me once for that reason, I discovered -- so have a look through the place you tend to carry your card and see if there are belongings with a magnetic field, that may have been close to the card.

...I went to the SS office and they were friendly , but I thought I'd get at LEAST SOME MONEY ! I DIDN'T !
NOW WHAT AM I GOING TO DO ?
They said I'd be sent a new card , in language nthat suggested that it might not be even put in the mail until NEXT WEEK ! And then it will go to the General Delivery address here , which is EXTREMELY HARD for me to get to on time .
I had anticipated , TO-DAY , before When The Card Disappeared (WTCD) that I would have access to about 2/7 of the month's money to-day - And I had planned to get some adequate shoes at Payless , another package of underwear , another pair of pants (probably jeans) , and one - or maybe two - belts , so each of (after I got the pants) three pairs of pants could have their own belt , to avoid messing around with it - and to have a spare if one of the belts broke , as tends to happen with these belts from Target that are , however , all I have access to (Likewise the Target jeans are maybe sorta flimsy , but it's reachable to me and (generally) affordable . There used to be an Army-Navy store on Market that I would go to , but it's years closed and a shell now .)
And , I thought I'd get a package of undershirts (If they had my kind in stock ,m they're often sold out .) , maybe a T-shirt on top or not - This was all to be from Target bar the shoes .
This was going to at least try to rebuild me , from the disaster/s the last week/-ish that have destroyed so many of my clothes ad all my bedsheets - And now it's all over .
What will I do if I have another poop attack in bed at night ? It's destroyed many of my clothes and bedsheets already .
I had thought I'd maybe buy just a transistor radio , to listen to the election on next Tuesday if nothing else - I thought I'd put that off til' the snd installment , another 7th or so , of the money came next Tuesday , though that would be cutting it very close as far as getting a radio for the election - I had even thought of trying to go to the Hillary headquarters locally and hang about there , NOW maybe I'm too dirty ~ And now it's all over ? I can't listen to the election at all ? Remember , if the new card is sent it might only come Wed. or Thurs. next week - WHAT CAN I DO NOW ???????????
Also m the General Delivery is rather further away from me in my usual pattern , and up a considerable uphill - As it is , with my screwed-up sleep pattern and what the klieg lights and especially the lead do to me - I get all sort of " parlysed " in bed , it taking me a long time to get going , I'm all groggy and woozy .
These beat-up shower clogs that are now ALL I HAVE TO WEAR ON MY FEET (I WAS , again , going to try and get some new ones adequate anyway before WTCD) , they hurt - Actually , I have this calf pain in my left leg that I already had even before the shoe broke ! - and , they keep falling off when I try to board the bus/trolley ~ What If I LOSE ONE/THEY GET DESTROYED ? They're all I have now ~ Though this morning I was anticipating getting adequate shoes - but that was before WTCD
I HAD wanted to try and clean myself up a little and that was taken away from me with WTCD .
Why was I born ?

A lot of churches collect and distribute clothing. If you ask around you might be able to get some for free.

...I'm a really weird size , for one - There's not a lot that fits me (when I go to 2nd hand places0 - My crippled-ness and the lead/sleeping pattern/klieg lights make it hard to get around , too...and I'm not good at contacting people , and I think you tend to need referrals fror something like that

...I was going to renew my cell phone , too .

What about plastic bedsheets/covers? The kind that some hospitals have. They might be more washable and easier to maintain longterm. You can also think of something similar for underwear. With total respect, possibly adult diapers are the way to go. You needn't throw them out, just wash them if they get soiled. It may save you money on replacing them all the time.

About the lights in your room, have you thought about buying sunglasses? There are also mild prescription sunglasses, which may help with reading.

...All this costs money now , and I don't have enough light to read comfortably at night , not too little , and the lights effect me when I sleep with a sleep mask on and additional sheet/blanket over me !
Thank you for your concern .

...As of to-day - The replacement card has STILL not come ...........

...It STILL has not come - Furthermore , it appears at least possible that a HORRIBLE bureaucratic tangle may have the card bouncing back and forth , due to this disagreement between offices about what Zip Code should go on the card , it's possible that offices keep " sending it to somewhere else for having the wrong Zip Code " .
It's almost THREE WEEKS since the earlier card was eaten . It'll be a full three weeks on Thanksgiving Day . Some f*****g Thanksgiving I'll have .
If I tried to , and was able to , get a bed in the big shelter I was driven to last Sunday ~ I might be greatly disliked for my coughing , for one thing !