https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ssi-rules-families-poverty/

The Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) was created in 1972 under the Nixon administration to provide financial support to low-income seniors and disabled people. An effort to federalize state-level adult support programs across the country, SSI is a means-tested program—there are financial requirements to be eligible. In the case of SSI, as of its last adjustment in 1989, enrollees cannot have savings of more than $2,000 as an individual or $3,000 as a family. Furthermore, SSI beneficiaries are prohibited from having retirement accounts, life insurance policies, certain types of personal property, funeral/burial policies, and access to other types of income.

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OMG I’m gonna test some means! hillgasm

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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Right? It’s so incredibly ass over teakettle 1984 catch-22 the matrix simulacra and simlution schniff schniff ideology that it’s absolutely maddening!

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      As if through the power of complicated accounting and terminology one can change reality. “Well mine is called a plea bargain so it’s not really a conviction.”