I think SSI has stigma against the disabled. There’s no benefits for effort. I have tried and attempted many jobs and haven’t been able to gain an income, but I have tried very hard. I am going to start exercising every day. I walked for 15 minutes, but I feel better.
I think not being able to save your SSI payments or become married is stigma against people who cannot work. I believe every human being is a gift, regardless of what they are capable of doing or contributing, because life itself is a gift and existence is worth the experience. So if I am unable to set aside more than $2000 ever.
What’s the point of SSI if you can’t put aside anything? I have had paranoid schizophrenia since the age of sixteen officially, It interrupted my high school and years of attempted college education. I have been bullied, stigmatized and harassed because of this illness my whole life. I only completed two years of high school. I have been fighting this stupid disease and aiming for the stars and now I feel conflicted about this SSI.
My attorney believes I have a good case. I really want to work a job. I have so many ps and downs. One minute or day I’m depressed, the next paranoid, the next I feel fine. I go from one day to the next never feeling whole or complete. Having a job was supposed to complete me. Having security could complete me too. But if you can’t save more than 2000 that’s not security thats insecurity.
They should definitely change that rule. Its messed up. If there’s a mortgage crisis and my family ends up homeless or the dollar crashes, or the stock market, it almost feels criminal! The idea that people who can’t work don’t end up starving on a street corner, how compassionate, lest they God forbid start a family or get married, or even try to buy a car! Let’s not give them enough money to ever be above the poverty threshold.
Systems completely rigged against minorities, those with disabilities, and there’s too much racism in this country. I think Canada or Sweden would be a better place for me…money is evil. I would rather not have to use it at all. I do ok without spending, I have been taught to be frugal. My grandparents lived through the great depression, my great grandma was a teacher and an airplane mechanic for soldiers during WW2. She didn’t throw anything away. I don’t like the idea of getting money, but not being able to save it. The more you save, the more you can prevent debt/loss and financial ruin.
If Biden changes this rule, he might have my vote in 2024. I also don’t think people should be spending their stimulus checks on bitcoin. I got my stimulus checks finally. I gave it to my dad to hold onto so I don’t spend it until I know what I should buy. I want to save toward a car, but that’s not enough to get a car that won’t be more work than its worth plus car payments and insurance. I also bought a laptop. This laptop is awesome! It’s the nicest thing I own. I just think with the economic peril of the nation, and uncertainty of our futures, that being able to save money no matter if you’re disabled or not seems to be ok to me.