Friday, July 10, 2020

Educational Tumblr Thread On Financial Assistance For Disabled People


This Tumblr thread shines light on the terrible struggles experienced by disabled individuals in America, when it comes to getting financial assistance. Specifically, we're talking about scenarios where these individuals literally can't save money, and are forced to deplete their resources every month, for fear of being cut off from financial assistance. If they exceed a certain amount of money, their financial assistance is pulled. What a mess. 

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Text - stealthpenguingamergirl S naikoru Follow marauders4evr Follow Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet? Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL! The United States Government:

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Text - (Watch how many people don't get this.) marauders4evr Follow #raises hand #i dont understand #please explain? In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever. It doesn't matter what it's for. You're saving up for a new wheelchair? For college?

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Text - To put a downpayment on a house? Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens? Your benefits immediately get cut off if you're a cent over $2,000. And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month. So say you get $400. If they find out you're twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your

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Text - "What if I spend the money that day?" Doesn't matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud. And yes, this system literally kills people. locuas642 Follow Remember when “Guardians of the Galaxy" came out? one of Rocket Racoon's creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.

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Text - before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantlo’s family. Bill Mantlo's brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance. rootbeergoddess Follow That's so utterly depressing.

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Text - sushinfood Follow disgusting beeskeepony Follow I have friends on welfare who won't pick up a penny in the street because they'd risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years. raenboow Follow oh look another fucked up thing in this world. let's just add it to the list. number 63858b

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Text - lil-mizz-jay Follow My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether. Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesn't want to get anywhere near 2,000. And here

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Text - One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didn't want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks. The state IMMEDIATELY (I'm talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitabl

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Text - they called off the cancellation of his SSI money. He also had to cancel his renter's assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money they'd cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and it's the stupidest shit in human history. Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?

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Text - sodomymcscurvylegs Follow Happy 4th of July everyone! This is what the “nation of opportunity" looks like. A xfirecorex Follow There's something called an ABLE account that can help. If you are on SSI and were diagnosed as disabled before the age of 26 you can apply for an ABLE account that will allow you to save up to $99,000. More people need to know about this!

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Text - transyasha thank you so much for this information. i'm applying for an abled account right now viostormcaller Follow THERES A WHAT OH GOD BLESS THE SHIT OUTTA YOU YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW FREAKED OUT OVER THIS I WAS

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Text - septic-dr-schneep Follow I've been looking into SSI; I had no idea about this! E perksofbeingdisabled Follow Read till the end for the important info whatevercomestomymind Follow Reblog to literally save a disabled person's life Source: marauders4evr 272,519 notes A

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