Social Security to Remove Barriers to Accessing SSI Payments | SSA
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Today, the Social Security Administration published a final rule, “Omitting Food from In-Kind Support and Maintenance (ISM) Calculations.” The final rule announces the first of several updates to the…

"We are no longer counting food that someone gives you as income when we figure your SSI payment."

This came into effect on September 30, but they just informed SSI recipients (using the future tense) this morning.

You mean they can just change these awful rules without needing an act of Congress to do so? Incredible. We suffered for years for no reason! But don't worry, our call is important to them:

Second, this final rule promotes equity. SSI recipients, by definition, have low income and resources. Because low-income people disproportionately encounter barriers across a range of social, health, and economic outcomes, our goal is to improve their circumstances, thus improving equity.

Incredible. You're the ones who legally require that we have low income and resources! honk-enraged

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  • DisabledAceSocialist [comrade/them]
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    28 days ago

    I'm in the UK and going through a disability benefits appeal right now. I'm a partially sighted stroke and cancer patient who is learning to walk again but apparently giving me zero points and stopping my payments is reasonable. Anyway I've been starving as I have no family to help and the food bank is so difficult and takes ages to access. So a couple of times I asked comrades on here for help. But then the DWP (British benefit nazis) said that they are going to check all claimants bank accounts, and I'll get in trouble if they see money going into my account. So I don't dare to ask for money. So I asked for supermarket vouchers/justeat voucher/amazon voucher for amazon pantry instead which means I'm not getting any help now as most people here aren't British and don't want the hassle of trying to work out how to buy vouchers for a different country. It's bad enough having cancer and having had a stroke, hospital appointments, awful treatments, etc. But on top of this society has decided that it doesn't want to pay me enough to live. And as if that isn't bad enough society has decided that I shouldn't be able to get any financial assistance as charity from members of the public either. Why does having cancer mean that I have to be punished with starvation and destitution?