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! 
Same thing happens with some kinds of theft and shoplifting charges. When the limits were set they were worth vastly more. With inflation the limits are now trivial amounts of money compared to what they were intended to be. But hey, more slave labor for the state amirite?
The charge categories are becoming less and less relevant as it’s getting more and more likely that they just summarily execute you
Word. Anyone who looks at US convictions and sees that something like 98% of federal convictions and 95% of state convictions are obtained via plea bargains? That's not a legal system, that's forced confessions. "I don't give a shit if you did it. Sign the paper and you get two years plus probation. Force this to go to trial and you get 10 years. Now sign."
If this was an "in bad country" thing everyone would assume those rates were gotten under torture. Like America is so efficient we don't even bother with show trials, we just force them to confess and send them to prison.
I always get into arguments with people trying to do the "East Asian (usually Japan in the past, sometimes China now due to the propaganda push) countries legal systems are so draconian, 99% conviction rate omg" thing because when you look at things from a material perspective, the "someone in the government with relevant authority decided you might have done a crime, do you end up in prison as a result?" rates aren't higher than in the US, they're lower.
In China prosecutors drop cases that don't looks like they're going to result in conviction. In Japan, cases that aren't a lock just don't get an indictment in the first place. In Japan or China you can be judged likely innocent by the system and not lower the conviction rate while you can be deemed guilty in the US without raising the rate.
It's entirely "bizarre and mysterious orient " shit.
Right? It's so incredibly ass over teakettle 1984 catch-22 the matrix simulacra and simlution schniff schniff ideology that it's absolutely maddening!
As if through the power of complicated accounting and terminology one can change reality. "Well mine is called a plea bargain so it's not really a conviction."