Last year Social Security changed its regulations to alter the definition of a public assistance household in ways that benefit Supplemental Security Income recipients. The agency has now submitted new proposed regulations to the Office of Management and Budget to alter what was done. We don’t have the text of what was submitted but I’ll take a guess that the Trump Administration wants to completely undo it.
The odd thing about what has been posted is that it’s labeled an Executive Order but it certainly seems like it would have to be a change in the regs. Also, they don’t give prior notice of Executive Orders.
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Gonna guess that the title with Rescission of Changes to the Definition of a Public Assistance Household is a big clue they are walking it back.
If you click the link, it says they're planning to rescind it (e.g., completely undo it)
Rescinding the public assistance household rule, if that is what is being proposed, would be a cut to Social Security benefits for many of our most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities. That would be a clear-cut violation of any promise not to cut Social Security benefits by the current administration. Advocacy groups for seniors and people with disabilities will be watching this with interest.
Sad day. I hoped the current reg would remain undetected. I suspect "Biden" association was more important than any waste, fraud, or abuse concerns.
If it’s just undoing what the last administration did, it’s not that big of a deal. All PA HH went to everyone with food stamps, instead of everyone with needs based benefits. When SSA input the all PA based on food stamps, then the SSI recipient, after it caught up to the State DHS, would lose their food stamps, call SSA back and change an LA to not all PA HH, and voila, food stamps reinstated. It makes more sense to get rid of LA “B” for SSI to pay the vulnerable population the full SSI rate, regardless of paying their “fair share.”
Problem was it stopped deeming from parents allowing parental income which normally made a child ineligible to not be counted on basis they had someone else with fs
Cruelty in action. Not at all surprising from an administration that specializes in harming the most vulnerable in our society.
Interesting. Rescinding the rule seems like a net loss though, for effected SSI recipients. If the SSI individual beneficiary avoids a 1/3 reduction, that is worth about $322 a month. Their SNAP gets reduced by much less than that though since SNAP expects people to spend 30% of their income on food. $322 SSI increase = appx. $97 SNAP decrease in that scenario if I am right. Still an over $220 monthly net benefit for the SSI recipient, under the current rule correct? So this change is a still a big deal, since $220 a month for a person living off less than 1K a month matters a lot.
That’s a bit extreme. People freaking out over this, likely don’t work at SSA and/or understand that SSI not Social Security tax dollars. Social Security and SSI are not one in the same
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