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Today's blog post is about applying for Social Security benefits.

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#DemolishDisabledPoverty #SocialSecurity #Disability #Poverty
Benefits Are Backlogged
CW: Evection A woman from Prince George, Virginia, who has a rare heart condition , has been waiting nearly four years for Social Security disability benefits. “It’s been very stressful…
gracedowwrites.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:52 PM
autisticadvocacy.org
#SSI was created to ensure that no seniors or people w/disabilities live in poverty. But asset limits that haven’t budged even for inflation in decades punish people for saving & lock them in poverty. It’s time for Congress to #UpdateSSI & #DemolishDisabledPoverty.
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April 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
jcry.bsky.social
The newly introduced SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act would raise the amount of savings a person on SSI could keep for the first time in nearly 40 years! Use this simple form to take action and #DemolishDisabledPoverty: bit.ly/3Itp66z
Tell Congress: Support the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act NOW!
I just took action to support the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act! Click to do the same. It's time to raise asset limits! [@campaign]
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September 11, 2023 at 6:30 PM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about overpayments from the Social Security Administration.

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#Disability #DemolishDisabledPoverty #SocialSecurity
Overpayments and Social Security
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced that it is reinstating a policy to collect 100% of overpayments to recipients, which the agency discontinued last year following an outcry over ca…
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March 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today’s blog post is about the future of Social Security benefits.

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#DemolishDisabledPoverty #SocialSecurity #ElonMusk #DOGE
Hands Off Social Security!
CW: Poverty During a press conference this month, President Donald Trump was asked if there were any federal agencies or programs that Elon Musk’s newly founded Department of Government Effic…
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February 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about ABLE accounts.

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#DemolishDisabledPoverty #SocialSecurity #SSI #AbleAccounts
ABLE Accounts
December 19, 2024, marked the tenth anniversary of the Stephen Beck, Jr. Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act. It allows eligible disabled people to establish savings and investment accoun…
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December 26, 2024 at 6:48 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about layoffs at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

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#Disability #HHS #RFKJR #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Catastrophic Layoffs
CW: Poverty The layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services reduced the staffs of major government aging, disability, and anti-poverty programs, making their future uncertain. At least 4…
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April 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about how disabled people could be impacted by cuts to SNAP.

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#SNAP #FoodStamps #Hunger #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Going Hungry
CW: Food Insecurity & Poverty Prominent Republican politicians and conservative think tanks have called for cuts and other damaging policy changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Progr…
gracedowwrites.com
January 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
lulumk1.com
I am permanently disabled, which is a fancy way of saying my body is incompatible with the system of governance we currently have.

Things need to change. We need to #BuildBackBetter to #DemolishDisabledPoverty
November 13, 2024 at 11:24 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about disabled people living in poverty.

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#Poverty #Disability #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Disability and Poverty in 2024
CW: Poverty December 3 is The International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It was also the day that Disability Without Poverty and Campaign 2000 released their second annual 2024 Disability Repo…
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December 11, 2024 at 7:08 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about Medicaid’s asset limits.

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#Disability #Medicaid #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Asset Limits and Poverty
CW: Poverty Cynde Soto, is a quadriplegic who requires round-the-clock care. She has been on Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program for most of her life. She recently received an inheritance of app…
gracedowwrites.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
burnsideashley1.bsky.social
Read more about the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act here: www.cortezmasto.senate.gov/news/press-r... #DemolishDisabledPoverty #UpdateSSI
Cortez Masto, Cassidy Push for Long-Needed Update to Supplemental Security Income Program - Senator Catherine Cortez Masto
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), alongside Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), introduced the SSI Savings Penal...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social

Today’s blog post is about the disability tax.

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#Disability #IDPD2024 #DemolishDisabledPoverty
The Disability Tax
In 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Tiffany Yu decided to learn to cook. She knew how to make basic meals, but often relied on takeout and microwave meals. She purchased a knife and…
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December 3, 2024 at 6:20 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about proposed changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

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#SNAPbenifits #DemolishDisabledPoverty #FoodInsecurity
SNAP’s at Risk
CW: Food Insecurity Lawmakers are proposing major cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest individuals and corporations. These proposed chang…
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May 29, 2025 at 5:20 AM
victoriasapphire.bsky.social
Text “SIGN PSLOAE” to 50409
Tell your officials to vote for improvements in SSI in the Recovery Bill
#DemolishDisabledPoverty
“TEXT SIGN PSLOAE TO 50409 TO JOIN VICTORIA & TELL YOUR OFFICIALS Improve SSI in Recovery Bill - #Demolish DisabledPoverty Visorica SIGNER No. 81,161”
December 5, 2023 at 2:02 AM
moniquedhooghe.bsky.social
“the current structure of the program and its asset limits ensure that low-income seniors, disabled people, and their families, are never able to move away from a life of poverty”

#DemolishDisabledPoverty #CripTheVote
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Lawmakers May Finally Update Strict SSI Rules That Keep Families in Poverty
Asset limits in the program have created a system in which millions of people cannot save money for their families or their future.
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October 2, 2023 at 6:51 PM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about ending subminimum wage in the U.S.

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#Disability #DemolishDisabledPoverty #Medicaid #SSI
Fair Wages and Disability
Yesterday, the Biden administration announced a plan to eventually eliminate a policy that has allowed corporations to pay employees with disabilities less than the minimum wage for decades.  …
gracedowwrites.com
December 4, 2024 at 9:27 AM
gracedowwrites.bsky.social
Today's blog post is about changes to SSI.

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#Disability #SocialSecurity #SSI #DemolishDisabledPoverty
The Case for Updating SSI
CW: Poverty Some people can now apply for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) online, which simplifies the application process. The simplified online application builds on an earlier announcement th…
gracedowwrites.com
December 17, 2024 at 7:17 AM
untonuggan.myatproto.social
ICYMI there's a bill right now in the US that would eliminate the marriage penalty for disabled people on SSI

and also tie the asset limit to inflation instead of the absurd $2k limit that exists right now

#NEISvoid

There's a Resistbot petition if you're exhausted like me ↩️
Resistbot petition image Text sign PSLOAE to 50409 To join Liz and tell your elected officials Improve SSI in Recovery Bill - #DemolishDisabledPoverty Signer No. 81,214
December 5, 2023 at 2:49 AM
disabled4kamala.bsky.social
Thousands of disabled workers are paid less than minimum wage — and the Biden Harris administration is working to change it. Kamala committed to ending the subminimum wage in 2020. We hope to see that commitment renewed! #Disabled4Kamala #DemolishDisabledPoverty
September 8, 2024 at 4:34 PM