Asset limits are just one economic hurdle people with disabilities face
www.wbur.org
It’s been decades since the government set how much money someone with a disability can keep in savings and still be eligible for Supplemental Security Income benefits.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ssi-rules-families-poverty/

The Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) was created in 1972 under the Nixon administration to provide financial support to low-income seniors and disabled people. An effort to federalize state-level adult support programs across the country, SSI is a means-tested program—there are financial requirements to be eligible. In the case of SSI, as of its last adjustment in 1989, enrollees cannot have savings of more than $2,000 as an individual or $3,000 as a family. Furthermore, SSI beneficiaries are prohibited from having retirement accounts, life insurance policies, certain types of personal property, funeral/burial policies, and access to other types of income.

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OMG I’m gonna test some means! hillgasm

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    87·
    1 month ago

    Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeup.

    At this point it’s an extremely humiliating form of social murder.

    Plus - If you apply it’ll take a year for your application to get processed. You will be denied. You will then have to appeal, which will take another year, and then you might get some amount of money. I believe it currently has a maximum pay out of something like 10k a year.

    How are you supposed to stay alive during those two years? Fuck you, die in a gutter.

    If you get married? You immediately lose everything; Your payments, your medicaid, everything. One of my friends didn’t know, got married, and then had to get an annulment when their spouse lost all their social welfare.

    Murica.

    Oh, and the average wait time on social housing, like section 8, for a single man with no children is like 10 years, and that’s in places where the system actually functions.

    • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      1 month ago

      I believe it currently has a maximum pay out of something like 10k a year.

      Federally, yes, but some states give more. In California you can make around $14,000, which is very much not enough to afford rent.

    • MaeBorowski [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      18·
      1 month ago

      How are you supposed to stay alive during those two years? Fuck you, die in a gutter.

      Exactly. And if somehow you do find a way to work despite your disability just to survive in the years you’re waiting and hoping for help, they will use that as proof that you don’t need the help and deny your application since clearly you’re capable of working! It’s just one of the more enraging Catch-22’s of the whole ridiculous process, but it’s hardly the only one.