From a notice posted today by the Social Security Administration in the Federal Register:
We are announcing a demonstration project for the Social Security Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program under title XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). In this project, we will test the effect of providing guaranteed income to adults with cancer in active treatment to learn about its interaction with the SSI program. We will modify the program rules that apply to certain project participants who apply for and who already receive SSI payments under the title XVI program.
It’s intended to prove that providing assistance to patients with cancer leads to increased financial stability and better health outcomes. Yes, this should be painfully obvious. But, we live in a nation largely run by old people with subaverage intelligence and mental illness who refuse to believe this obvious truth and insist that public assistance instead harms people.
ReplyDeleteYet another guaranteed basic income test. So far other tests have been mostly positive but test results are unlikely overcome the gut feeling that people handed a small amount of money will just say eff it and never hit a lick at working.
ReplyDeleteThis should also read “United States takes another stab at providing the basic needs that most other industrialized nations do” or “United States tests theory that already works all over Europe”.
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