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!

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Apparently Indiana has the highest payout at 15k annually for some fucking reason.

[–] Kolibri@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hate this country, this reminded me of last year before my mom died. when she got injured from her workplace, she tried to apply for disability and got denied. and she was worried of going homeless from all her medical bills. she was thinking of getting a disability lawyer to help with this, but her health ended up declining very fast before she could get to that

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm so sorry, comrade. cuddle

Anecdotally, from a friend of mine, everyone gets denied on their first disability application. An attorney is a de facto requirement. Probably intentional in order to cull the numbers. Wonderful system.

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

100%. Everyone gets denied and it is 100% to cull people. If you ask them they'd tell you it's to encourage people to go back to work and not cheat the system, which is obvious bullshit.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Fuck this hypocritical country.

We are run by literal malthusians who want to apply video game morality into real life.