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SSI and family income
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What do people who depend on SSI (Not social security) do when they get married or have children? The income limits are set way below what is actually needed to pay rent and feed yourself. If your partner is not disabled and works but cannot afford to support you without your own income, what exactly are people supposed to do? Move out? Pretend to move out and use a second address? Not put children on the birth certificate?
Have any of you had to deal with this situation? What solutions did you come up with? Also, are there any deductions that can be made to those income limits so that a person can actually qualify and get money? Posted on 11/02/09, 02:11 am |
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Here are three links that should answer your questions. The first is from the official SSI site. (It essentially is useless in my opinion.) The second is from a blog. (It is highly useful in my opinion.) he third is a video on YouTube. (Clever, mildly useful.)
Just copy the address and paste it into your browser's address window. http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/iss... http://bouldermomonwheelz.blogspot... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS-... 
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I would like to start a campaign to appeal this. With all the health reform talk going on this could be a good time to get a petition signed to change this law.
If I write something up and organize a petition would anybody help me with this?
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I did not qualify for SSi because I get a little bit from my disability from work and my husband gets a little bit from unemployment, he got laid off at the beginning of the year. How little do you have to make.........it doesn't make sense.
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There is already a petition; it's mentioned in the video. Contact info appears at the end of it.
Personally I cannot see a petition as being of any real value, other than as moral support, as the SSA maintains a strict fervent uncompromising adversarial stance against SSI beneficiaries. In all matters recipients are treated as fraudsters, and further they are guilty until proven innocent.
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I strongly suggest that each and every one of us direct the link with the petition to our local congressmen and senator. There is a lot of talk about health care reform right now. There is a small chance that it could get adopted into one of the new bills if we push for it.
I dont really have a lot of faith in government, but short of some other viable tactic we can use I say we might as well try. It doesnt take long to write a letter and there is a small chance it could actually work.
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