To make it “more fair and equitable”. Clown world.

Social Security Administration to expand access to benefits under major overhaul

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The Social Security Administration is poised to bring in new rules which will make it easier for qualifying Americans to access certain benefits - and increase payments for some.

The change will apply to Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which is a means-tested program which provides monthly checks for more than 7 million disabled Americans and seniors over 65.

The new rules will expand the definition of what qualifies as a public-assistance household - the first change since 1980.

Currently, food assistance may count as unearned income for those receiving SSI, meaning their payments could be slashed or their eligibility affected.

Those that receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, payments, will be included in the definition of public-assistance household under the new rules which are set to go into effect on September 30.

The new policy will also expand the definition to take in households where not all members receive public assistance, which was previously a requirement.

A public-assistance household will now be defined as one with both an SSI applicant or beneficiary, as well as at least one other member who receives one or more forms of means-tested public income maintenance payments, CNBC reported.

'By simplifying our policies and including an additional program geared towards low-income families, such as the SNAP, we are removing significant barriers to accessing SSI,' Social Security Commissioner Martin O'Malley said in a statement.

'These changes promote greater equity in our programs.'

Currently, the maximum monthly SSI benefit is $943 per individual, and $1,415 for an individual and eligible spouse.

The definition of a public-assistance household has not been updated in decades, Darcy Milburn, director of Social Security and healthcare policy at non-profit The Arc, told CNBC.

'I would characterize this as just good policy and commonsense changes to update this definition,' Milburn said.

With the change, more Americans could qualify for SSI, or current beneficiaries may see higher payments.

It comes after the Social Security Administration announced earlier this week it is expected to run short on funds by 2035.

An aging population is pushing up the cost of the Social Security program as a smaller share of people are paying into it, and spending is outpacing income.

The latest annual report from the Social Security Board of Trustees found that the program will only be able to pay out full benefits for the next 11 years - which is one year later than previous estimates.

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in on this dumpster fire.

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This government sucks

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It's election season.  

It’s far worse than this article suggests…. We are currently directly paying the retirement payments for people in Ukraine while our own Social Security has a decade until it can’t meet its obligations.


They literally care more about retired people in Ukraine than they do you.

merica gets moar socialist and/or fucked up every year whilst you vote harder and poast spicy memes.

Y’all don’t get it. They don’t believe they can run out of something they can create.

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They are burning the entire economic system down on purpose.  They are all in on it.

2035 is including SSDI. 2033 for the boomers.

Best part is that assumes current employment levels. Good thing no body is laying off right now.

But y u luv Putin, bro?

hardest part about the economic collapse and/or civil war dos will be pretending i'm all broken up about it.

Everything gov has ever touched, turns to shit

Change my mind.

Maybe we should move all the SSI people to Ukraine to secure the future of their payments..

They are talking about SSI, supplemental security income, not Social Security. SSI is funded by the Treasury Department from general revenues not the FICA tax.

How is SSI funded

The Social Security trust fund is expected to run out in 11 years which is 2035. They have been saying 2034 or 2035  for at least the last five years.

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SSI is welfare. I believe there are a lot of fake claims. Following Biden logic we should make it easier to file claims.

Anyone who pushes equity should have their money taken immediately.

We shouldn’t be funding Ukrainian pensions.

However, we’ve been funding Social security since what, 1930 when it was created?

I have a disabled Son who is 41 on SSI.  He lives at home and is non functional in society.  I have first hand experience in how EVIL the SSI system is.

"Social Security to begin running out by 2035, so they're giving away even more of it now"

LOL....SSI payments are funded from federal dollars not from payroll taxes to the SSA.

anyone getting the gubbmint check should be drafted first for WWIII.

let 'em earn some of dat sweet sweet gubbmint chedda for once.

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Social security thread?

In on this shit show!

I can't do that.

WHUT IM OWED

PLUS MY GOT DAYUM INTEREST SONNI BOI

Disability takes many forms, many of which I don't agree with. My sister takes the applications for SSDI, she can tell some stories! 'I can't work because I can't read' 'I can't work because I can't pay attention' 'I can't work because I don't get along with people' 'I can't work because I'm too fat and can stand on my feet very long'.
My wife works at Sam's, she see's the other side, SNAP. Grocery carts full of premium food products, steaks, lobster, ribs ect.

It ain't fair I tell ya'. I told my wife we should apply for SNAP and save ourselves about $400. a month!

quit your job(s).

go on welfare.

problem solved, problem staying solved.

Gotta buy them last votes before the money runs out.

Irresponsible boomers gotta eat

SS and SSI are both welfare.  Both involve the forceful redistribution of wealth.  In the case of SS money is taken, effectively at gunpoint, from workers and employers to be given to retirees.  Legalized plunder, as Bastiat described such practices.

SS is also fiscally ruinous and the demographics of our country will ensure it eventually crashes and burns.  Perhaps that is for the best, as SS needs to be eliminated and a collapse may be the only way it can occur at this point.

SS is about "equity".  Older version of the same shit.

Isn’t that the fucking truth.

Some of this gets really complicated.

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and being put into debt for bombs that Israel will drop on every building in GAZA shortly after warning the Palestinians to evacuate them. The supporters will say but the military aid creates jobs here. Jobs via debt with interest to be paid forever.

Of course we all know our corrupt politicians will tell us that we have to help pay to rebuild GAZA in the future aka more debt.

Don't get me started of the untold billions of debt to care for the invaders that are never leaving and will forever alter this nation, and not for the better.

America, the stupidest nation on earth but we the people allowed this by electing corrupt scumbags year after year, decade after decade.

This and it's not new. They have been trying to eat away at our economy for a long, long time.

They are driving to turn SSI into UBI.

Lower the age for SS to 40. We have plenty to give away ask Ukraine.

Welcome to Costco. I love you.

I will never see a dime of the money I have paid in to social security for the past 23 years.

Trump will fix this

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SSI is a joke. I'll take all of mine in one lump sum if its going to be gone by 2035.

INB4 "I haven't been able to get an erection since the Reagan administration, but by Jove I want every penny I paid into social security back plus 20% interest! I would have soundly invested that money into Worldcom, Adelphia, and Enron."

Redistribution of Wealth.

Majority of SSI collectors never paid a dime into it.  Part of the reason why the fund is going broke.

Dems just couldnt resist keeping their hands out of that cookie jar, the only thing demmunists love more than buying votes is buying votes with conservatives' own money.

It's not your choice to make. Or where you born tonight?

I have nothing CoC to say about this administration….

SS/SSI and the welfare programs should be shit canned.

I think legit people that paid into the system should get some of the money back and how to do that is huge question.   Everyone else sucking up tax payer funds just because they are fat, can’t deal with people, or other dumbass claims can get bent.

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They can just learn to code.