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Hey friends! CA SB 1204 was to be voted on on Tuesday but has been postponed to 4/17, PLEASE KEEP THE PRESSURE ON! SWOP Sacramento has suspended services until they know what theyāre facing; other VITAL harm reduction orgs like St James Infirmary and Abeni are still serving and will for as long as they can.
use zips 94601, 95602, and 94577.
You can track SB 1204 here: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billCompareClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1204
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Abled Person: Hey man, can you hold this wad of $2,000 and this one penny for me while I open my wallet?
Disabled Person: YOU COMPLETE AND UTTER FOOL!
The United States Government:
(Watch how many people donāt get this.)
#raises handĀ #i dont understandĀ #please explain?Ā
In order for disabled people to receive any sort of financial assistant for their housing, food, bills, medical supplies, etc., they cannot ever have more than $2,000 of resources to their name. Ever.
It doesnāt matter what itās for.
Youāre saving up for a new wheelchair?
For college?
To put a downpayment on a house?
Hell man, you just happen to budget for once in your life so that you can have some extra money in case something bad happens?
Your benefits immediately get cut off if youāre a cent over $2,000.
And, even worse, you usually end up having to pay back every dollar the government gave you that month.
So say you get $400. If they find out youāre twenty dollars over the resource limit, you have to give them all $400 back and you undergo an investigation of your funds to see if you will continue getting money.
āWhat if I spend the money that day?ā
Doesnāt matter. In fact, from what I can tell, people who do this are actually put under investigation for fraud.
And yes, this system literally kills people.
Remember whenĀ āGuardians of the Galaxyā came out? one of Rocket Racoonās creators, Bill Mantlo, suffered an accident in 1992 and has irreparable brain damage.
before the movie came out, Marvel gave him an exclusive preview screening. SOme people were upset because they felt if Marvel was really wanted to thank mantlo, they should have donated money to Mantloās family.
Bill Mantloās brother had to come out and explain: If Marvel gave them monetary aid, Bill Mantlo would lose his financial assistance.
Thatās so utterly depressing.
disgusting
I have friends on welfare who wonāt pick up a penny in the street because theyād risk the welfare they struggled to get for 10 years.
oh look another fucked up thing in this world. letās just add it to the list. number 63858b
My brother has been on California State SSI for autism for the last 10 years, and he absolutely has to (no joke, HAS TO) spend all 720 bucks of his SSI every month, because if he puts it in the bank he risks losing his SSI altogether.
Sometimes, at the end of the month, he has no idea what to do with his money because the whole month went by and he still has 400-ish bucks in his account, and he fucking panics because he doesnāt want to get anywhere near 2,000.
And hereās the funnest part of the story!
One day he did a huge commission on Second Life and wound up earning 1500 bucks off of it, and he told the guy to donate it 500 bucks at a time over 3 months. The guy didnāt want to, and just donated all 1500, which put my brother at 2,036 bucks.
The state IMMEDIATELY (Iām talking less than an hour) called him up to tell him over the phone that they were canceling his SSI, because they noticed he had gone over the 2,000 buck threshold. He had to tell them that someone had made a charitable donation to him and that this was not a common occurrence in any way shape or form, and upon not believing him, my mother had to call to talk to them as his legal caretaker and say basically the same thing until they called off the cancellation of his SSI money.
He also had to cancel his renterās assistance because it put him to 1,062 a month, so if he went 30 days without spending any money theyād cancel his SSI altogether. Like, none of us in the family have any fucking clue why that regulation is in place and itās the stupidest shit in human history.
Please, legal side of Tumblr, tell me what positive reasoning this law has?
Itās not just money, though. Things you own can count against your resource limit as well provided that theyāre not exempt and provided that theyāre worth money.
Also, the rules about what is and is not exempt from being counted against your resource limit are incredibly vague and deliberately open to interpretation. Even things that are normally exempted like clothing or furniture could be deemed non-exempt if a capricious bureaucrat decides that itās actually worth too much money and thus counts as anĀ āinvestment.ā
As someone who receives SSI this causes me a huge amount of stress.
This is so unbelievably fucked up
donāt couples have to divorce sometimes because their combined income disqualifies them from assistance?
Conservatives: be more frugal and save money instead of asking to get paid more
Also conservatives: if you save money youāre a sneaky thief and a fraud
It gets even worse!
If youāre already struggling on SSI and in absolutely no danger of ever reaching that over limit, and every cent of SSI is going towards your living expenses, you also are penalized harshly for any extra money you try to make, no matter how little!
Because youāre supposed to report any money you get for any reason (and some people I know have been told to even report it if people BUY THEM DINNER) and the SSI folks will then dock you $1 for every $2 not from SSI youĀ āearnā within 2 months. Thereās noĀ ālower limitā on this, when Iāve gone to SSI offices to ask questions Iām told Iām even supposed to report if an aunt gave me five bucks for my birthday, (a lot of people seem to think you can earn X amount before they dock you but they always tell me to my face theyāll dock me for FIVE BUCKS).
So if you need to scare up say, $200 from nice friends and family/sell some art/have a garage sale to help pay some bills that are staring you in the face, roughly 2 months later, youāll be docked $100, regardless of anything. So if youāre already struggling on SSI you basically get to struggle moreĀ in a future month if you managed to earn money or got donations for a temporary thing. Doesnāt matter if the entire $200 or whatever was immediately eaten up by bills and debts and nothing was saved.
You can only come outĀ āaheadā if somehow, despite being disabled, you find a 100% completely steady source of income that gives you 2x what you actually need to supplement the low-as-fuck amount SSI is providing.
ā¦Or you donāt report any of the help you got and hope they never find out because theyāll cut your SSI for fraud if they do find out and feel like doing so.
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I want to buy this woman a beer.
This woman is named June Ayres and she has owned and operated Reproductive Health Services, which is currently the only clinic in Montgomery, Alabama, for about 30 years. May I suggest that you donate the price of that beer to The Linda D Foundation, which helps Alabama women afford reproductive services including birth control, emergency contraception, and abortion services? http://alabamareproductiverightsadvocates.com/thelindadfoundation/ You could also donate to the National Abortion Federation here: http://prochoice.org/about-naf/support-naf/ This gifset is from an incredible documentary called Trapped. You can find or organize a screening or stream it for free here: http://www.trappeddocumentary.com/ Itās seriously an amazing movie about some amazing people.
This womanās casual level of āFuck Youā herosim is exactly what I aspire to be in life.
from the PBS special The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution which is available on Netflix.Ā
Since thereās OP didnāt include a caption, here are some links to fundraisers to help our tribe! Thank you!
Navajo Relief Fund:Ā http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=nrf_index
Navajo Water Project:Ā https://www.navajowaterproject.org/
NavajoYES (youth organization):Ā http://www.navajoyes.org/donate/
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Friendly fucking reminder that the site is actively forcing users to unfollow the net neutrality tag after 20 or so minutes of following it.
Friendly reminder that this site is now actively trying to limit our ability to share information and spread awareness.
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Not very many people on tumblr have been posting about the protests and police violence in St. Louis right now. This surprises me.
Itās like I said, itās not interesting enough for tumblr anymore. When the black lives matter protests were first happening, it was a huge thing on tumblr. Now tumblrās bored of it and you donāt even hear about it anymore.
I suppose thatās true. Itās just troubling because literally hundreds of people have been arrested. They literally strangled an old black woman at the galleria. Yesterday protestors shut down hwy 40 (which is the main central highway through the city). And they arrested those documenting and advocating first. Please tell me itās not totally fucking terrifying that their first priority is to make sure no one else can see what they are doing. The city is being sued for their treatment of protestors.Ā I am pasting in some photos for those following the post. This has all been happening for the last two weeks. These are organized actions.Ā THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A JUDGE TELLS COPS THEY CAN KILL WHOMEVER THE FUCKING PLEASE
This is literally the first Iāve seen about this.
I suppose for the sake of people who donāt know my beloved St. Louis, I should be clear and state that this is the same place where Ferguson is. Ferguson is suburb of St. Louis, but the way out county/city is laid out, Ferguson is really just a neighborhood in St. Louis, so this is a continuation of the Ferguson uprising that has been reinvigorated after Jason Stockley (white cop) was acquitted for the murder of Anthony Lamar Smith (black man). Stockley chose to pursue a bench trial, and the judge acquitted him citing the following racist bullshitā¦.
Important line transcribed for those who can see the image:Ā āFinally, the Court observes, based on its nearly thirty years on the bench, that an urban heroin dealer not in possession of a firearm would be an anomaly.ā WHAT. THE. FUCK.