Disabled people have to jump through years of hoops for those payments.
Further, the top payout is around $750 a month and they aren’t allowed to generate any kind of income outside of that or they will lose it.
This means they can only afford to live in subsidized housing which can take years of being on a waiting list to access.
We pay them far less than subsistence level and many of them end up on the street because of it through no fault of their own.
For five years I gave change to an old man who begged for change while he waited for his name to come up on the housing availability list. He lived out his car the entire time up to that.
We do not pay them to live. We pay them and go “hope you can figure it out” and kick them to the street.
Disabled people have to jump through years of hoops for those payments.
Further, the top payout is around $750 a month and they aren’t allowed to generate any kind of income outside of that or they will lose it.
This means they can only afford to live in subsidized housing which can take years of being on a waiting list to access.
We pay them far less than subsistence level and many of them end up on the street because of it through no fault of their own.
For five years I gave change to an old man who begged for change while he waited for his name to come up on the housing availability list. He lived out his car the entire time up to that.
We do not pay them to live. We pay them and go “hope you can figure it out” and kick them to the street.
If we subsidize their housing, we’re paying for their housing too.
We pay them to be alive, yes. You can argue we could pay them more, and id support that, but we very much pay them just to exist.
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