"Broadly, when we look at a lot of our social welfare programs, somewhere around 15 to 20 percent of people who are eligible for food stamps don’t receive food stamps. In large part, because of these bureaucratic obstacles. We know that this is a huge issue with unemployment insurance. There are some states where I see upwards to 20 to 30 percent of eligible populations not receiving access to basic health insurance. It has profound implications. One striking example, actually, was in Tennessee. They kicked nearly 200,000 children off of the Medicaid program simply because people had made paperwork errors. Two hundred thousand children lost access to health insurance because they’d made paperwork errors."
"The program is meant to wipe out the student loan debt of Americans who can no longer work due to a significant disability. But, until now, borrowers who qualified for the program had to apply for the relief. Now, relief will become automatic for those who are identified through a data match with the Social Security Administration." "The program is meant to wipe out the student loan debt of Americans who can no longer work due to a significant disability. But, until now, borrowers who qualified for the program had to apply for the relief. Now, relief will become automatic for those who are identified through a data match with the Social Security Administration. "
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/07/28/moving-neglect-dignity-ssi-program
https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-and-bowman-push-biden-to-bolster-ssi-for-people-with-disabilities/
If you missed out on Chris's conversation earlier this week, you can access the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufaZwbh5IiQ&ab_channel=GatheringStrength%2CInc.
Thank you to Liz Fust and @gathering_strength for organizing this event! "The U.S. Bureau of the Fiscal Service explains: 'Federal benefit payments, such as Social Security, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Veterans, are required to receive your payment electronically. You must either have the money deposited directly to a bank or credit union account or get your money each month on a Direct Express prepaid debit card.'"
"The pandemic threatens to strike Social Security’s disability program and its beneficiaries in multiple ways that play into the system’s weaknesses and its target population’s vulnerabilities."
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