SSI, as opposed to SSA, are welfare payments. SSI benefits recipients, landlords, medical suppliers, grocers, ad infinitim.
As president, Trump tried and failed to cut all benefits drastically. SSI, Supplemental Security Income, is not the same as retirement benefits and neither are disability benefits based on FICA contributions. But som…
SSI, as opposed to SSA, are welfare payments. SSI benefits recipients, landlords, medical suppliers, grocers, ad infinitim.
As president, Trump tried and failed to cut all benefits drastically. SSI, Supplemental Security Income, is not the same as retirement benefits and neither are disability benefits based on FICA contributions. But some Republicans wanted to replace the entire system. GWB tried to privatize it.
“The Trump proposal would cut SSI by more than $8 billion over the next decade, shrinking benefits for roughly a quarter of a million children with disabilities by between 38 and 66 percent. It would also increase SSI’s administrative costs and improper payments”.
The Republican study group wanted to "sunset" all benefits. It "scored" an attempt to cut a children's SSI benefits. . CBO Eliminate Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Disabled Children. https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/54742 (2018)
Background
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides cash assistance to people who are disabled, aged, or both and who have low income and few assets. In 2018, 15 percent of SSI recipients, or 1.2 million people, are projected to be disabled children under age 18, receiving an average monthly benefit of $686. To receive benefits, those children must have marked, severe functional limitations and usually must live in a household with low income and few assets.
Option
This option would eliminate SSI benefits for disabled children.
When I was an Eligibility Worker Daniel, back in the late 90's early 2000's drug addicts were able to get SSI, on the grounds their addiction was a mental health disease (which it was) therefor these poor souls (mostly men and many veterans from Vietnam and Desert Storm) were able to get a minimum (I think it was around $619 back then. We usually got a conservator to handle the money and see it went for housing and food. The problem at that time was Social Security who ran the program although it didn't fund it, denied all disability on the first application. Since these men were incapable4 of representing themselves we had some attorneys who for a small flat rate taken from the lump sum would get the necessary paperwork and file the appeal for them, The client would get the check before the conservator could get it from them and many of them overdosed and killed themselves. We still treat the mentally ill in the same poor fashion today.
SSI, as opposed to SSA, are welfare payments. SSI benefits recipients, landlords, medical suppliers, grocers, ad infinitim.
As president, Trump tried and failed to cut all benefits drastically. SSI, Supplemental Security Income, is not the same as retirement benefits and neither are disability benefits based on FICA contributions. But some Republicans wanted to replace the entire system. GWB tried to privatize it.
See. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Trump, House Republican Cuts to SSI Would Harm Children With Disabilities, Sept. 18, 2017, Kathleen Romig and Guillermo Herrera. https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/trump-house-republican-cuts-to-ssi-would-harm-children-with-disabilities
“The Trump proposal would cut SSI by more than $8 billion over the next decade, shrinking benefits for roughly a quarter of a million children with disabilities by between 38 and 66 percent. It would also increase SSI’s administrative costs and improper payments”.
The Republican study group wanted to "sunset" all benefits. It "scored" an attempt to cut a children's SSI benefits. . CBO Eliminate Supplemental Security Income Benefits for Disabled Children. https://www.cbo.gov/budget-options/54742 (2018)
Background
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides cash assistance to people who are disabled, aged, or both and who have low income and few assets. In 2018, 15 percent of SSI recipients, or 1.2 million people, are projected to be disabled children under age 18, receiving an average monthly benefit of $686. To receive benefits, those children must have marked, severe functional limitations and usually must live in a household with low income and few assets.
Option
This option would eliminate SSI benefits for disabled children.
When I was an Eligibility Worker Daniel, back in the late 90's early 2000's drug addicts were able to get SSI, on the grounds their addiction was a mental health disease (which it was) therefor these poor souls (mostly men and many veterans from Vietnam and Desert Storm) were able to get a minimum (I think it was around $619 back then. We usually got a conservator to handle the money and see it went for housing and food. The problem at that time was Social Security who ran the program although it didn't fund it, denied all disability on the first application. Since these men were incapable4 of representing themselves we had some attorneys who for a small flat rate taken from the lump sum would get the necessary paperwork and file the appeal for them, The client would get the check before the conservator could get it from them and many of them overdosed and killed themselves. We still treat the mentally ill in the same poor fashion today.