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TIL in 1989, the US government set $2,000 as the limit for how much money someone with a disability can keep in savings and remain eligible for federal benefits (www.wbur.org)

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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!

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 64 points 4 months ago

Every single fact you've revealed here should be enough for another round of the Nuremberg trials to start and every single elected and appointed member of the US federal government should be tried in them.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

There are eight million people on SSI. Who knows how many they've made homeless or killed.

A data analysis by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that from 2014 to 2019, about 48,000 people filed for bankruptcy while trying to get a final decision on a disability appeal. The same report said that from 2008 to 2019 more than 100,000 people died waiting.