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The Social Security Administration will eliminate all but a handful of those unskilled jobs from a long-outdated database used to decide who gets benefits and who is denied, ending a practice that advocates have long decried as unfair and inaccurate.
Social Security to jettison obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefitswww.washingtonpost.com For decades, Social Security has used obsolete jobs like pneumatic tube operator and nut sorter to deny disabled claimants.
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Good start. Now change the rules for disabled people and marriage.
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OMG. My mom warned me about this and it's ridiculous. Especially since you can't live on disability alone
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Yeah I basically am missing 40% of my income from in kind and marriage penalties.
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Disability needs to be a liveable wage and it shouldn't be based on your spouses wage. Your spouse can lose their job at any time.
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My spouse is on disability too and they hit them with the same penalty.
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I’m being means tested… against SSI for my SSI….
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The idea of someone on disability losing benefits is from the 20s/30s when people were one income households. It's archaic and needs to be changed to reflect modern needs
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SSI was created in the 70’s and the amount we are allowed to earn through work or be gifted doesn’t go up with inflation.
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If i remember right there's work being done to not only substantially increase the limit, but also eliminate the marriage penalty right now. Harass your representatives and tell them to get that shit passed if it's not too late.
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More progress under Biden, being fought at all costs by GOP.
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And, by those liberals for whom any improvement is inconsequentially small and insufficient no matter how big, and who always immediately go looking for a new oppressed group and instead of acknowledging the many saved, wail about the few who need saving from some other tangentially connected thing.
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They should be required to offer a job to every individual who applies for disability and their office denies. If they’re so employable, friend, offer them a nice federal job for which they qualify.
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Next: stop capping savings for disabled people. A hand controls power chair in driver side van STARTS at $60k. THE CEILING IS LESS THAN $2000. 😡
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After: stop removing benefits because people get married.
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Excellent, excellent Now let's see about repaying 47 years of missed SSDI payments with interest
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I hope they also eliminate the "you pay for Social Security errors that are now accumulated to $50,000 +" on seniors and making them pay for social security mistakes THEY did not make but social security did. They must staff ...1
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What am I supposed to do with this Dictaphone now?
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a lot of Trump - Republicon saboteurs who would do something as heinous as this and pass the buck onto Seniors to terrorize? Need a thorough " SS House" cleaning here. ... 2
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Is this a good thing or a backdoor way to take apart Social Security?
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So this is good news, but not great. SSA has issued two new Emergency Messages. One flatly excludes about a hundred jobs from consideration. The other includes a list of a dozen jobs but also includes a loophole you could drive a semi through (And vocational experts basically already do). Cont.>