[blindlaw] SSI payments

[tim and vickie shaw]

honestly i dont know how people live off SSI unless they flat out lie to the SSA the most i have EVER gotten from them is 367 a month I ahve never managed to get them to pay the full  amount allowed. At the moment I only get 116 a month and I ahve been fighting them for 56  months tryin gto ge tthrough the red tape to get them to pay me the higher amoutn i sould be getting
 
> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:35:16 -0800
> From: carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] SSI payments
> 
> And what if the recipient of the loan has no family and gets hit by a 
> bus tomorrow? What do you garnish then?
> 
> If they don't get a job, then they don't. If SSI allows them to sit 
> on SSI collecting subsistence-level money without ever contributing 
> anything to society, that can and should be fixed--but not by 
> allowing garnishment of SSI.
> 
> Joseph
> 
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:40:12PM -0500, Steve P. Deeley wrote:
> > What if they never work??
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Matney" <angie at mpmail.net>
> > To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:19 PM
> > Subject: Re: [blindlaw] SSI payments
> >
> >
> >> Deferring a loan for an SSI recipient until that person has a job is 
> >> not a "pass card." BTW, people other than blind people get SSI. SSI is 
> >> not something that can be garnished because its purpose is to help 
> >> people meet their basic necessities so that
> >> they are not starving out in the street. On the other hand, SSDI is 
> >> like an insurance payment (that's actually what the "I" stands for in 
> >> SSDI, but not in SSI). Someone could win the lottery and still continue 
> >> to receive their SSDI payments. That is why
> >> SSDI can be garnished.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:49:55 -0500, Steve P. Deeley wrote:
> >>
> >>> Everyone needs to take responsibility for repaying their loans. Do 
> >>> you get
> >>> a pass card if you are blind? Is that what your attempting to convey?
> >>> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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