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.

[emphasis mine]

OMG I’m gonna test some means! hillgasm

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  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    Definitely a safe assumption. I did the math once for the salary of a SNAP fraud investigator and they would have had to kick something like two dozen full families off benefits every month to even justify their annual pay, let alone overhead, administration . . .

    sometimes malice trumps economic incentive.

    The health insurance that comes with my SSI just denied coverage for a medication that might help me manage my disability.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      3 months ago

      I’m so sorry. I don’t have anything else to say about that, but I’m going to go to bed reflecting on that petty cruelty you’ve experienced.

      • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
        14·
        3 months ago

        Ah, shit, I’ve spent the last few days wondering how these people sleep at night and then I end up contributing to a comrade’s insomnia instead.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I can’t imagine. Every day you’re looking people in the face telling them that a state that absolutely could help them is instead condemning them to torment and death. Every single day, all day long.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      Social security won’t cover a drug cocktail injected into my spine that I should be getting monthly but it’s like $3,000 a shot. It’s approved for people with my condition but only if they got it from diabetes. If it’s the result of a trauma injury, it’s not FDA approved, so it’s not covered.

      Before I lost that coverage, the doctors and I were looking into weaning me off vicodin. That didn’t happen, so now I’ve been on it for over a decade (you’re only supposed to take it for like 6 months at most lmao).