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Public housing agencies frequently prioritize people with disabilities on their waiting lists for subsidized apartments and federal rent vouchers. But agency budgets are tight, often requiring state and local governments to stretch a single housing office to serve multiple counties. Many of the people on the waiting lists are also receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI),…

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The brief’s key findings are: As life expectancy rises, more retirees face the higher poverty risk associated with very old ages due to declining resources, cumulative inflation, and widowhood. In response, some propose boosting Social Security for the oldest old by either: adopting an annual cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) for all retirees that more closely matches t…