顺便说一下背景, SSI is a federal assistance program administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) that provides income supports for people who qualify as disabled and have limited resources and income.
的 政策Center notes in its brief that important features of the program have not changed since it was established in 1972:
- 最近的估计显示大约有4.4 million working-age adults with a disability received an average monthly benefit of about $600.
- In 2021, 才有资格获得SSI, monthly income must be less than $794 for an individual or less than $1,已婚夫妇191美元.
- 的se maximum benefit amounts remain well below the federal poverty level.
- SSI has an earnings offset known as “income disregards” that effectively imposes a high marginal tax on work — $1 for every $2 earned, or 50 percent — on income over $65 per month.
Other disincentives to work faced by SSI disability beneficiaries include potential loss of income supports and health insurance, 工作规则的复杂性, and delays at SSA in processing beneficiaries’ earnings reports that lead to overpayments (which serve to further shrink already insufficient benefits by requiring beneficiaries to repay the government however much they were overpaid).
Sinocchi赞扬 政策Center’s efforts to work with the appropriate legislative representatives and policy movers to get the income limits raised appropriately to enable these individuals to gainfully work and earn a living without fear of losing their benefits.
“简单地说, income limits imposed for government benefits eligibility — without regular, systematic review — strain families’ economic mobility,他说. “And the systemic barriers created by these outdated asset and income limitations only serve to further widen the economic wealth divide.”
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