Tag: SSI
The families of more than 1 million children and teenagers with serious physical and intellectual disabilities are receiving Supplemental Security Income, or SSI. But a 1996 reform made it harder to keep those benefits when the child turns 18. The 18-year-olds who don’t meet the tougher requirement for eligibility lose not only SSI’s monthly cas…
U.S. house prices and rents have been rising for decades, interrupted only by the Great Recession. Rising costs have increased the already considerable burden on low-income people to pay for housing. In 1985, for example, single people who received cash assistance from the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program were paying half of their budgets…
