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JT45242

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3. Any discussion of lifting the cap to pay for it?

Reply to Mersky (Original post)

Tue Sep 21, 2021, 03:18 PM

Sep 2021

Easy solutions to funding SSI and Medicare are removing the caps on SSI/MEdicare taxable earning.

Hope they reform this as my sister who was hit by a drunk driver was denied disability even though there aren't jobs that can accommodate her need for no more than 10 minutes in a row standing or 15 minutes in a sitting. (DD broke both her legs, pne arm and a bunch of ribs when she was standing next to a broken down motorcycle)

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Policy Options for Improving SSI - Senate Finance Committee Hearing 9/21 [View all] Mersky Sep 2021 OP

Am listening and commenting lightly today as I gather my thoughts to submit to the Committee Mersky Sep 2021 #1

This is the first hearing on the matter Mersky Sep 2021 #2

Any discussion of lifting the cap to pay for it? JT45242 Sep 2021 #3

Gosh, that's a hard situation for your sister, but I think you're referring to SSDI benefits Mersky Sep 2021 #10

From a modern economics perspective, the Ticket to Work program is bizarrely bad Mersky Sep 2021 #4

And, they don't care what the work is. bamagal62 Sep 2021 #6

Yep. Is an outrageous bureaucratic contraption locked in archaic notions of people with disabilities Mersky Sep 2021 #12

Todd Young asked some tough questions Mersky Sep 2021 #5

Lankford asked starting questions that reflect he has little understanding of the system Mersky Sep 2021 #7

Sherrod Brown - It is odd that SSI applications have gone down during COVID Mersky Sep 2021 #8

Application rate to SSI is not a measure of effectiveness Mersky Sep 2021 #9

my youngest is on ssi. she'd love to marry her honey, but mopinko Sep 2021 #11