Tag: Supplemental Security Income
Changing Social Security to a flat benefit for all would put both workers and the poor at risk. Social Security is this country’s most important and most popular program. However, changes will be needed soon, as the program will not be able to pay full benefits once the retirement trust fund is depleted in 2033…
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…
