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The proposed SSI Restoration Act of 2021 has expired. Its champions, Congressman Raul Grijalva and Senator Sherrod Brown, have yet to re-introduce it in this session of Congress.
We understand that in this Republican-controlled House, this bill has a vanishingly small chance of passing this term. However, the bill has momentum that we would like to see sustained into the next Congress that will start in January 2025. If this bill is reintroduced, we can continue to ask other legislators to renew their co-sponsorship of it because their support of SSI issues matters to their constituents.
We are looking to get at least 500 signatures on a public letter asking Congressman Grijalva and Senator Brown to re-introduce the bill with updates to geography (include US territories and commonwealths), the penalty structure, and extending a one-time forgiveness of outstanding penalty balances incurred under the unjust and wildly outdated 1989 asset limit.
Please take one minute to add your name at the link below and share this letter with your friends and family. The more signatures, the stronger the letter. Thank you for your support of disability justice!
[ID: A bar graph entitled “Supplemental Security Income’s Asset Limits Are Outdated” published by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The graph includes two comparison groups along the x-axis, “individual” and “couple”. Each comparison group includes three bars, labeled in a legend. Bar 1: current limits (frozen since 1989). Bar 2: if limits had been adjusted for inflation since 1989. Bar 3: if limits had been adjusted for inflation since 1972. The Y-axis includes dollar figures ranging from 0 to 15,000 in increments of 3000.
The asset limit for individuals is currently $2000. Adjusted for inflation since 1989, it would be approximately $4500. Adjusted for inflation since 1972, it would be approximately $9000.
The asset limit for couples is currently $3000. Adjusted for since 1989, it would be $6500. Adjusted for inflation since 1972, it would be approximately $13500.
A source line reads as follows: “CBPP calculators from Social Security Administration and Office of Management and Budget data.” /End ID.]
You are not obligated to forgive those who have hurt you. Never ever. You don’t have to forgive them, accept their apologies, trust them, or let them back into your life for any reason.
Its not negative or anti recovery either. You can still heal without forgiving your abusers or other toxic people in your life. You don’t owe them your forgiveness, you don’t owe them a goddamn thing.
We should all be able to thrive & earn livable wages. Your worth is not, and should not be, defined by how much money you make.
Digital illustration of a the back of a Black fem wearing a blue jean jacket. On her shoulder is a white rat holding a coin. There’s text that reads, ‘your worth is not defined by how much money you make.
hey s/o to chronically ill or otherwise physically disabled people who are mostly, entirely undiagnosed, or otherwise have undiagnosed body problems that have yet to be explained.
especially if your symptoms are scary and confusing and weird enough to both you (and perhaps also to medical practitioners) that you have no idea what’s really going on with you so that you can’t even self-dx or make a solid guess at it.
especially if you keep getting expensive and non-routine medical testing/exams that seems like it’s supposed to tell you something but then the results come back normal.
especially if the only potential answers to your problems are notoriously difficult to diagnose, treat, and/or require specialists that you don’t have access to.
especially if this would have been a lot easier to deal with if you had supportive family members but you were medically neglected and/or don’t have any family that you can rely on (this particularly applies to congenital stuff.)
and especially if you don’t have the time, finances, or patience to figure out what the fuck is going on because dealing with the medical system and constant testing and a constant lack of answers is utterly fucking exhausting. desperately wanting help and relief and feeling fear that something might be seriously wrong but you don’t even need to start, or just being tired of suffering and not having any clue what your body is doing.
post inspired having had episodes of wack neurological(?) shit that was causing excruciating nerve pain at the base of my neck and my upper back that was at like a 10 and cognitive impairment that got worse the longer i remained upright (including my speech starting to slur) over the past couple of years that seems to correlate with daytime manual labor specifically. seemed to be a herniated disc but a supine mri that insurance refused to cover showed zero signs of disc herniation or any other abnormalities. is it cci? is it a spinal cfs leak?? who fucking knows dude!! i came home sounding like i was drunk one day due to how fucking delirious i was and left work on day in tears once due to feeling like a knife was in the base of my neck and i still have no idea why ✌🏻
You guys know how to travel in a car with your canes, right? You know where to put them so they don’t kill you in an accident? You’re not just holding them on your lap?
For the record they go under your feet or under the seat. That’s the safest place for them except the trunk. Pls don’t let your mobility aid kill you in a freak accident
I’ve been driving with my cane wrong the entire time 😃
If this post saves even just one (1) person from ending up with a broken jaw/face/windshield I will be happy tbh
Nobody deserves to have to deal with maxillofacial surgeons or worse…. auto glass repair shops
