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Today’s disability topic is how America forces disabled people into poverty.

Today’s particular topic is how SSI keeps disabled people poor.

Let’s first go over what SSI is. Supplemental Security Income is a program that provides monthly payments to disabled people and elderly people who meet the financial qualifications.

SSDI stands for Social Security Disability and eligibility is based on work credits. This is for people who used to work before becoming disabled. We will not be discussing this today.

Here are the facts:

The average SSI payment in January of 2023 is $553 per month.

Disabled people on SSI also cannot have more than $2000 in savings and assets. This is severely limiting.

This is not enough to even cover basic needs. How can someone live based off those payments? Disabled people who live with someone such as a caregiver, family member, or partner receive reduced payments and risk losing their benefits.

Disabled people cannot marry without losing their SSI or losing financial assets.

Here is an eye opening article about forced poverty:

https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2022/01/government-mandated-poverty/

Also check this article by The Hill called “Lifeline for people with disabilities forces them to live in poverty”

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/3702528-lifeline-for-people-with-disabilities-forces-them-to-live-in-poverty/

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"There's also a statue on Cyprus that's bearded, shaped and dressed like a woman, with a scepter and male genitals, and they conceive her as both male and female. Aristophanes called her Aphroditos, and Laevius says: "Worshipping, then, the nurturing god Venus, whether she is female or male, just as the Night-Shiner is a nurturing goddess." In his Atthis Philochorus, too, states that she is also the moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's dress, women in men's, because she is held to be male and female."

— Saturnalia: Books 3-5, Volume 2, by Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius Macrobius, edited and translated by Robert A. Kaster