Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeup.

At this point it's an extremely humiliating form of social murder.

Plus - If you apply it'll take a year for your application to get processed. You will be denied. You will then have to appeal, which will take another year, and then you might get some amount of money. I believe it currently has a maximum pay out of something like 10k a year.

How are you supposed to stay alive during those two years? Fuck you, die in a gutter.

If you get married? You immediately lose everything; Your payments, your medicaid, everything. One of my friends didn't know, got married, and then had to get an annulment when their spouse lost all their social welfare.

Murica.

Oh, and the average wait time on social housing, like section 8, for a single man with no children is like 10 years, and that's in places where the system actually functions.

These fucking limits that are enacted without mandatory, automatic inflation adjustments really just gives up how much of a sham this country is. Even at the best of times, these "solutions" were just never intended to be supported.

It's me!

I actually got approved on my first try, without a lawyer or anything. I had many years of medical records, and also had to go to one of their affiliated doctors for a final check-up.

There is one way you can have savings, but you have to have had your disability before the age of 26, and you're only allowed to spend it on certain things. Also your Social Security caseworker will not have heard of this program and you'll just have to hope they don't make it count against you somehow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABLE_account

Another fun fact - if someone buys you dinner, you have to report it, so they can reduce your benefits accordingly.

When benefits are raised or reduced, that happens two months later, so if you managed a desperate attempt to make some money or received assistance, it's dangerous to spend it on what you needed it for, because at ~$8 a day after rent you can't really afford to let that go down two months from now when prices might be even higher than they are now.

Also, you can't pay less than an even share of rent, even if you send them a blueprint of your apartment showing that you have the smallest bedroom, because anything less than an equal split counts as "housing assistance." Your benefits will be slashed accordingly.

I hate this country, this reminded me of last year before my mom died. when she got injured from her workplace, she tried to apply for disability and got denied. and she was worried of going homeless from all her medical bills. she was thinking of getting a disability lawyer to help with this, but her health ended up declining very fast before she could get to that

I'd joke that they are just mandating disabled people open a savings account under their mattress but in reality they were never going to pay disabled people enough to actually have savings anyway

Oh hey this is me! I can't work at all because my disability basically gives me about four hours out of the day where I can sit up, if that. SSDI pays a little under working a 20 hour workweek for me, so it's either: work part-time and feel physically awful or not work and get a low amount of money I'm not allowed to save or invest with.

Any side hustles like doing art commissions or gig work also mean having to pay back what I made or else I lose all benefits. Basically that means doing free labor because I end up with zero more dollars and that's not far from scabbing.

My retirement plan is global warming.

Eugenics shit

Wait until you learn that women in the United States couldn't open a bank account without their husband's permission until the late 1970s or that disabled people in most states can be paid under minimum wage.

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

It should be $5077 for an individual or $7516 for a family today if adjusted for inflation.

I going to somewhat safely assume, like the security theater and cruelty-for-its-own-sake fare enforcement bullshit in NYC mass transit systems, it costs more to enforce the cruelty than to stop doing it entirely. SSI may cost less overall if all the means testing cruelty and all the extra bean counter paperwork and investigations and panopticon shit was all ceased.

Capitalism is supposedly about profits and cost-cutting above all else, but like Netflix/Discovery suits that decide to terminate profitable shows because of personal biases against some shows (or even just their fandoms), sometimes malice trumps economic incentive.

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It seems like every day I learn something new about this terrible country

They limit the amount of property you can own here was like... 5k in 2019, which is not thoroughly explained whether that means the current price of things, or what it would get on the second hand market etc etc. You certainly couldn't have a house or apartment until covid when suddenly a bunch of conservative voters were jobless.

of course I know many people on this and its a catch 22 nightmare but also what they replaced welfare with for white people in the south so they could keep getting money while all black people were kicked off welfare if they couldn't be a slave for mcdonalds or whatever.