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What is the purpose of Supplemental Security Income, or SSI?

Answer: The purpose of SSI is to help aged, blind and disabled people who have little income and few resources to support themselves. It provides financial assistance to meet basic needs for food, clothing and shelter. You can receive SSI even if you have not worked and paid into Social Security. SSI is a federal income supplement program funded by general tax revenues (not Social Security taxes). Find out more at www.socialsecurity.gov/ssi.

Source: Gregory Holmes, via timesfreepress.com – 5/29/2014

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  1. It is impossible for somebody like myself to get off of SSI/SSD you don’t help to get off these things. I am on SSI/SSD. I was also on forced government insurance CHPW. I was told that I had stage 2B breast cancer and if i didn’t take chemo therapy i would die. three years later and many handicaps I found that I was never supposed to have chemo. CHPW insurance turned out to be an open check book for doctors. I lost my home, my retirement, went homeless for a minute and now I am told by my government that I am poor because I made bad decisions. The only bad decision I have made was to believe in health care and government. Now we have a chance to get off the handouts and SSI/SSD won’t help. My husband is also disabled, he hasn’t worked in four years, he just received a position in an internship through Americorps he will make 1275 a month working over 50 hours a week. I lose the ssi portion of my disability, and food stamps so I lose 500 yet he is working 50 hours a week and we still cannot buy toilet paper, laundry detergent, gas, and just basics but he needs a lunch, I need special foods because of my digestive issues. My husband is over fifty has disabilities and he is working for less than minimum wage, all because we want off the handouts and SSI won’t let us get off of them. We need help to get back on our feet. I was told by a representative in my junior high economics class that SSA was formed to protect us and we go to work to pay for our government who was set up to protect us when medical issues and so forth come up. I was told that this was our governments job and why we pay taxes. Yet it was the governments forced health care that caused the disabilities. I am just asking as to why you can’t help us through this period of time so he can successfully get a job that pays a living wage? Isn’t that the point of all of this? No food stamps are not enough to feed a family, and now they are being taken away, and now with my husband working over 50 hours a week what do we do to keep gas, food, laundry detergent, money for laundry, and so on and so forth. It is almost impossible to do real life things when you have to fight to get a meal, how is this man supposed to be successful? I just got off the phone with another SSA employee, I wanted just to be taken off the SSI portion of the disability and I was just told by a SSA representative that I cannot request to be taken off of SSI because then I will be forced to pay it all back. So you are dammed if you and damned if you don’t . What in the world is this all about? I have to pay your back I can’t tell you to take me off of it without being prosecuted wow.

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