The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether.
The effort to cut SSI for families who also rely on food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was initiated by top White House and Department of Government Efficiency officials last year, multiple Social Security officials said. It marks a second attempt by the Trump administration to quietly but dramatically downsize disability benefit programs overseen by the Social Security Administration, despite those programs’ strict eligibility standards and minimal instances of fraud.
Orphan Crushing Machine
A society should be judged upon how they treat their weakest members, the weak, the infirm, the aged and disabled. (Jefferson, but so many others through antiquity, including, very obviously, the Christian church and Jesus, Hell, marriage vows).
US, how do you think you are judged ??
Is the marriage of State and Monopoly worth this legacy, on you, and your children’s children?
This is eugenics
Anything to finance more tax breaks for billionaires!
The title is clickbait: decreasing help differs from penalizing.
Not in any meaningful way. “We’re not ‘fucking’ you, were just damaging your life severely”
Still, this current title is misleading and, actually, a straightforward lie. If the government would impose a new tax for disabled, then come back.
I don’t understand why journalist need to lie in this situation. The situation is bad, it becomes even worse, you don’t need to lie to get people’s attention. But some journalists just can’t refrain from lying.
I don’t understand what’s misleading or false here. If the situation creates new strife for disabled people, it will feel punitive to them. That’s a valid way to describe it. Where’s the lie?
Wrong
