#ssi restoration act

[tittyinfinity]

I'll be so pissed if SSI gets raised and assistance programs reduce the amount of help given. Like if you have rental assistance like I do, I worry they're gonna increase the rent you have to pay. People can't escape poverty bc the government/corporations/landlords etc are always like "oh you have more money now? We're gonna take that away lol you don't deserve to save for anything"

#ssi restoration act #i havent read into it enough tho so if im wrong and theres a part of the bill that says assistance wont be decreased #feel free to correct me #dani

[freefloydcollins]

I will never get over how fucked up it is that the there is a cap on the amount of money a disabled person is allowed to have. There's an act to raise that cap to the poverty level, which is a fucked up sentence in the first place, but is a good thing. "If you have a disability and absolutely cannot work, then we the government are going to force you to live in squalor." I hate it here

Anyway call your reps about the SSI restoration act.

#ssi restoration act #disability #discrimination #politics

[titleknown]

...I feel like a lot of the Discourse about disabled artists and the way online art communities treat them ignores a major elephant in the room.

Which is, I feel like nobody talks about how it is profoundly fucked that our disability system; especially in the US; is so profoundly threadbare and broken, that the only visible viable economic option for many disabled people is to struggle at the unstable; cutthroat landscape of commission art, especially if they're stuck in a rural shithole; stuck living with abusive parents; or both!

Like... it's not just me that thinks it's profoundly fucked that nobody's rallying for the SSI Restoration Act half as hard as they are for banning AI art, right?

Despite the fact that the former would be infinitely more immediately and directly impactful for helping disabled artists, instead of the shithead "professionals" who're driving the advocacy for the latter and would throw any disabled artist who relies on derivative works for income into the dirt because "COPYRIGHT SACRED" if it suited them, right?

#art #media critique #i'm so sick of seeing people struggling and dying while nobody helps #poverty #leftism #disability

[poetry-protest-pornography]

Attn to disabled people + allies: A new bill called the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 has been introduced to the House and Senate that will be life-changing for many of us.

Among other things, the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 will:

• Raise the monthly disability income to the poverty level — a ~30% increase

• Change the amount recipients can have saved from $2,000 to $10,000 — the first update in over 30 years

• Update outside income restrictions to $399/month from work *without benefit reductions*

• REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN and promote marriage equality

• Remove penalties and reductions for receiving help from friends and family

Please consider calling your representatives to ask them to support it. You can also text "SIGN PSLOAE" to 50409, which will automatically send letters to your representatives for you.

Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/

More info: https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/social-security-program-update | #Disability #DisabilityRights

#ssi #activism #disability rights

[workers-compensation1]

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[arctic-hands]

Anyone know where the SSI Restoration Act stands right now?

#ssi #disabilty #United States #sherrod brown

[softceleste]

Hey, saw your notes about no phone, heres a direct link to the SSI Restoration Act petition to sign without texting: https://resist.bot/petitions/PSLOAE Hope this saves you some searching!

Thank you so much! This saved me from trying to figure it out after work, and I was just able to do it with iMessage (and using my landline when they asked me for my #) fast! 🥺

#answered #they offered WhatsApp and FB Messenger as well if anyone is in the same no cell phone but wants to sign boat #I was literally just going to figure out where the bill was and write each of these people letters so no you saved me hours of work #thank you 🥺 #and this gives me a work around for future resistbot posts because yeah I usually just track down my reps contact pages and write them #there so when it’s bills it’s usually like so helpful to go ‘it’s here’ so I know which one to contact ya know #this was way faster though

[fabricdragondesigns]

Attn to disabled people + allies: A new bill called the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 has been introduced to the House and Senate that will be life-changing for many of us.

Among other things, the SSI Restoration Act of 2021 will:

• Raise the monthly disability income to the poverty level — a ~30% increase

• Change the amount recipients can have saved from $2,000 to $10,000 — the first update in over 30 years

• Update outside income restrictions to $399/month from work *without benefit reductions*

• REMOVE THE MARRIAGE BAN and promote marriage equality

• Remove penalties and reductions for receiving help from friends and family

Please consider calling your representatives to ask them to support it. You can also text "SIGN PSLOAE" to 50409, which will automatically send letters to your representatives for you.

Find your senator: https://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Find your representative: https://www.house.gov/representatives/

More info: https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/social-security-program-update | #Disability #DisabilityRights

#ssi restoration act #disabled rights

[reasonsforhope]

so the ssi restoration act as of 2023 seems to have been gutted of all the things listed except savings. the allowed income is NOT being raised, unless you have a link to a different bill? or heck, adding a link to the bill in general when reblogging it that's not just a screen shot of a tweet?

like I don't want to be a buzzkill but the added reblogs going across my dash have all been of the "no it does not do that anymore" addition and I'm confused.

Once again I get a lesson on the hubris of queuing posts at 5am/not independently factchecking every single thing. Ugh.

I sadly do not have a link that says otherwise. That tracks with everything else I've read about the bill, unfortunately, and I've taken the post down.

Everyone should still call their reps about it, though, because the savings limit increase would be SO LIFECHANGING for so, so many people.

Thanks for letting me know.

#Anonymous #ask #me #whoops #disability #ssi #ableism #disability rights

[nonegenderleftpain]

I'll say this until I'm blue in the face - no disability assistance will ever be enough until it covers the invisible costs of being disabled. Getting payments up to the poverty line isn't enough.

SSI and SSDI and Medicaid don't pay for your transport to that one specialist that's in network thirty miles from where you are, and they don't pay for your ride back. They don't pay for the special toothpaste, or the shower chair, or the adjustable desk chair with a foot stool you need to keep your spine aligned for the few hours you can sit upright. They don't pay for the hours of your life lost sitting in waiting rooms, or for food prep, or cleaning services, and they sure as hell don't pay for special foods, no matter how allergic you may be to everything else.

There are so many things that we desperately need that abled people do not have to pay for that have nothing to do with the costs of our treatment. We need these things, sometimes for survival and sometimes for comfort, and there does not need to be a line drawn between those two things for us to receive them.

It is legal not to hire us for being disabled. It is legal to pay us less for being disabled. SSDI and SSI don't consider us people enough to be worth the same pittance of minimum wage they give everyone else and our lives cost more by default. The SSI Restoration Act is a start, but it does not fucking end there. We spend a lot of time actively waiting, and that time gives us a lot of time to build rage and spite. We have died upon the steps of Congress before and we will do it again if that's what we have to do to make them face us. Step over our bodies like they do every day.

Vote for the SSI Restoration Act. Call your senators and reps and demand that they raise SSI to minimum wage. And then ask disabled people around you where to go next.

(This post sponsored by me finding out the closest endodontist to me, 3 miles away, is out of network and would charge me $1600 for a procedure, and having to spend the rest of my day calling everyone in the surrounding 30 miles and praying for an opening while actively unable to speak without crying. I was not paid for my time. I was charged for it.)

#disability #death tw #ssi restoration act #ssi #ssdi #chronic illness #invisible costs #invisible illness #spoonies

[spooniestrong]

#spooniestrong #spoonie #ssi restoration act #ssi #ssdi