Maggie Maybe

Texas has always done some shady shit to SSI recipients. One of my best friends in California had an adult son living with her, back then I think the SSI payment was about $700 a month.

Then he moved to Texas to live in a shack that she owned. And I guess because he was living in his mother’s property his SSI payment went down by $300. He was living in his mother’s property in California because there is no state in this country where you can rent a place when your income is only $700 a month.

Also I remember when the rest of the country was getting pandemic snap benefits except for people in Texas or Florida. Maybe the people with kids got them, but old/disabled people were still trying to survive with $16-$23 SNAP a month while the rest of the country was getting the maximum benefit amount for their household size regardless of the income.

Map Shows Where 400K Americans Could See SSI Benefits Cut - Newsweek https://www.newsweek.com/map-400k-americans-ssi-benefit-cut-2121393

#SSI #Texas #california #florida

Map Shows Where 400K Americans Could See SSI Benefits Cut

A think tank has estimated that over 275,000 people could face benefit reductions and over 100,000 could lose SSI eligibility entirely.

Newsweek
Sep 1 at 10:56amWeb
Show threadMaggie MaybeSep 1

Speaking of snap, I’m a single woman in New Hampshire and my only income is SSDI. My calculation of my medical expenses seems like I only spent three dollars more per month than I did last year, but my food stamps went up like $30. I’m really excited about this.

This will probably only last a month or two because in October they make changes if there are congressional changes made to the amounts, but I expected them to go down even though my medical expenses went up. They didn’t yet.

#SNAP #SSDI #NH