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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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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 35 points 1 month ago

Chuds need to understand this and I wish more would talk about it.

[-] Bloobish@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

They don't care either way, in their reality of "personal responsibility" there is no room for empathy in a similar was as the liberal thinks that such measures are just and that the oppressed should never demand more. Both are two dichotomies of the fascist state, the hatred towards the weak and the worship of the "process" of the state.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Almost no one knows outside disability and chronic illness circles. The squad tried to get some reforms a few years ago but that obviously ate shit. Idk if it even made it to committee.

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