Abled gays celebrating marriage equality: well we sure do have nowhere to go from here when it comes to marriage rights. Gay rights!
Me, a disabled lesbian trying to get on ssi thinking about how I will not be able to marry my girlfriend if I do because I can't have more than $2000 to my name at a time and they count a spouse's income towards that: wow .. gay rights ...
Just wanna say if you fought for and support marriage equality for gay people its your responsibility to do the same for disabled people. Abled people can and should rb this
I'm going to guess that this is an American issue..?
op mentioned ssi/ssdi, which is american, but this isn't a strictly american issue. marriage can disqualify you for disability benefits in the uk and most (if not all, i don't know specifics for every province) canadian provinces. this includes common-law marriage, which means disabled people can't even live with their partners without risking losing our benefits
marriage & partnership disqualify from disability benefits in new zealand & they're notorious assholes about enforcement + their interpretation of what a partnership is, its not even safe to date without risking losing your benefit & people have had their benefits cut off for having long term flatmates. meaning numerous disabled ppl in nz are effectively not even permitted a relationship let alone marriage
In Australia your disability support pension is reduced if you are partnered/married, including if your partner is also a pensioner
the maximum base rate for singles is $860 a fortnight, but for couples that drops down to just $650 dollars each or 1.3k combined
the average fortnightly rent cost in australia is $860....
next time you hear someone complaining about centerlink fraud consider minding ur own business because for a lot of people the reality is you either lie to the government or you lose vital income
(info retrieved from servicesaustralia.gov.au and the ABS)
