While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.
It's 9k here- so not enough for a house deposit and housing benefit will pay for rent to a rich landlord for life but not to you for 25 years so you can eventually come off housing benefit
That is messed up. I don't think we here in Norway have any kind of support which takes into account marriage status. That seems strange. But Anglo systems seem very means testing oriented in general. Any excuse to cut aid of any kind.
It's especially egregious when you consider a major reason for the push for marriage equality in the first place was to avoid next of kin problems with AIDS, and that it's based on "cohabitation" and apparently would deny gay people benefits over it even before you could legally marry each other 🙃
Gwendolyn has been rejected for disability three times now. She finally got a disability advocate lawyer, so we'll see how that goes. The nice thing about this firm is that they only take a percentage of the back pay, never anything from future payments.
It's really hard, and most lawyers won't take you on if you haven't been rejected at least once. But if you've still got your rejection paperwork, it's worth it to make some calls.
lucky enough that me and mine can live together (have before they were able to be on disability).
My life will never end up the way I thought it would, but the good news is it has caused me to evaluate what I want/need and am better off for it
Especially because everyone knows it’s Monaco. No offense to any other country but how often do race cars drive between problematic celebrities on yachts and other, even more problematic celebrities playing a version of Baccarat where you can bet whole castles? Excellent public transport too.
The dumbest part is that laws like this were made in the 1920's, back when Eugenics was massively popular in the West at that time period in the USA, UK, and Germany. The laws were made to compliment the ideology of helping reduce and kill off populations deemed to have 'inferior genes'.
We have spouses of deceased retires who can’t remarry because they would lose their health benefits.
Only the spouse has this restriction, the retiree can be a window, divorced, etc and they can marry someone with 5 kids and get them all on their health insurance, many with no change in cost.
The rules haven't changed since being put into place in the 1920s. It's asinine that a disabled person can't get married for fear of losing their benefits.
This, and also it affects family arrangements for disabled people generally. If an adult disabled person is cared for by a parent or other family member, even the most basic decisions are complicated by having to calculate the possible loss of benefits and similar financial consequences.
In Brazil, you can receive the value of the minimum wage from the government if the your income per family member is lower than 1/4 of the minimum wage. Doesn't matter if you're married of not
Yeah in my state even before I was married I wasn't qualified bc my wife makes 5k over the annual limit 🥲 we can't afford to live on our own but we can't get help either
Reminds me of how I have to embellish my situation a little every time I go to renew the benefits I did manage to clutch.
Like dude I just wanna eat, I shouldn't have to tell the government half truths to get money for food
Also I never got the stim check because of dependency BS.
I don't recall any other deadly pandemics hitting the US that required everyone to stay exclusively at home for months at a time to the degree that stimulus checks were needed. The context that tells you I'm talking exclusively and specifically about those checks is in the post I was replying to
In Australia our governments don't differentiate between any type of relationship. Effectively, if you are living with anyone involving mutual support then the relevant departments will not consider you single and make the appropriate adjustments to benefits.
yea, all while not getting enough 2 live w/o help! i no ppl n the us have 2 hide cash their friends give them 2 help so it's not counted against their 1k usd they're expected 2 live off each month. it rly feels like the gov wants 2 look like they're helping but don't rly want disabled ppl 2 survive.
We need another saint to come and secretly get people married so the government doesn't know and they don't lost their benefits. Like Valentine but for disabled people instead of Roman soldiers.
I went to a private ceremony for a disabled couple. As for their benefits, the couple went about it via power of attorney and affidavit. So they were spiritually married, and the gov couldn't interfere with their benefits since they took care of that with their legal teams to my knowledge.
