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Disability (which I paid taxes for, to protect me from poverty if I became disabled) pays a whopping $914/MONTH.
I sell nudes to afford basic necessities.
They also have an asset cap of $2,000 which hasn't changed since 1974. Basically, if I have more than $2k in my bank (or in any valuables like comics or coins) at any time, they take away my food and Medical insurance. If adjusted for inflation, it would be $13k. I'm drowning and lucky I'm an attractive girl, otherwise I couldn't afford to survive.
There are a lot of awful things here but to focus on just one, holy shit monthly rent could go over the asset cap in a few years.
It already is in the more expensive cities like Denver or San Francisco.
Yeah disability is intentionally designed to be awful. You can only have it of you're dirt poor and it pays so little that you will always be dirt poor. God help you if you live in a place where it's hard to get separate housing assistance, that has poor EBT benefits, a state that fucked over medicaid, etc. God help you if a family member tried to assist you in some way and now you have ever so slightly too much money. It's a really messed up system considering how hard it is to get ln disability, meaning that the vast majority of people who have it aren't scamming the system as some people might like us to believe.
I had to lawyer up and fight to prove I was disabled, even though I had medical documentation of seizures, severe Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, Tachycardia, etc. If you don't have a lawyer, they automatically deny you. Lawyers only get paid if they win, so if you're not lawyered up, they assume you weren't bad enough for a lawyer to take the case.
I contacted a senator in my state and she basically told me that Social Security is going to run out, so the cap hasn't changed because only people with no other choice will be on disability, and it'll last longer