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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    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      4 days ago

      I keep saying it: modern day Sparta.

      The US loves finding new ways to try to purge the “weak” from society and a scary amount of US citizens think this is a good thing to try to prevent “the weak” from surviving.

      If anyone unironically believes in the law of the jungle, they should be forced to return to monke.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 days ago

      Aktion T4 but instead of giving you the dignity of a bullet to the head they make you crawl on your knees begging for life as the machine slowly weighs down on you.