PURE EVIL! Trump pushes to strip lifesaving money from disabled Americans if they live in a house with family members --

[riversedge]

I have Never seen something so cruel -and Foolish!!
What is a parent to do if they have a disabled kid when he reaches "adulthood"??



BREAKING: PURE EVIL! Trump pushes to strip lifesaving money from disabled Americans if they live in a house with family members — targeting innocent people with Down Syndrome and other severe disabilities.

This is a whole new level of cruelty...

According to a bombshell report from ProPublica, a new rule proposed by the Trump administration would "slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits."

The horrifying revelation was gleaned by reviewing internal government emails, a federal regulatory listing, and by speaking with four federal officials.

ProPublica focused on the case of Shy’tyra Burton, a Philadelphia woman with a below 70 IQ who is unable to work and lives with her father, a sanitation worker who makes $2,000 a month. Burton receives $994 a month from the SSI program but under the Trump administration's new rule, her benefits would be reduced by the value of the bedroom she lives in her father's house.

In other words, people barely scraping by on SSI benefits will be penalized for having a roof over their heads. Mentally disabled people will be forced to reduce their monthly costs even more, going without food or medication in some instances. Those reductions will apply even if the family members they live with are poor enough to be qualify for food stamps.

Households that receive SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, are vulnerable to these cuts because of a "complicated" interlocking system of rules according to ProPublica. Basically, a family on SNAP is officially considered too poor to "financially support a disabled loved one living at home." This newly proposed rule would exploit that assessment to harm these vulnerable individuals.

Under this draconian new rule, most low-income SSI recipients will have their income slashed by a third. Some will lose their benefits altogether.

In the case of Burton, ProPublica estimates that this rule could save taxpayers a paltry $11 a day. Meanwhile, Republicans are currently arguing that we should shell out $400 million for Trump's White House ballroom. The Iran War has cost $35 billion so far.

This administration is stomping on the poorest, most vulnerable members of our society to pay for even more graft, tax cuts, and sweetheart deals for the top 1%. The fact that these Republicans call themselves "Christians" just makes the cruelty all the more galling. Jesus Christ would be horrified by these people.

The report goes on to point out that in the case of Burton, a reduction to her SSI payments could mean that her father is no longer able to support her, at which point she would have to move into a facility that could cost taxpayers hundreds of dollars more a day.

Not only is this rule evil, it's self-defeating. Nothing will be accomplished other than increased suffering for struggling Americans.

[ColoringFool]

1. The Movie "Conspiracy" Details The Dispassionate "Numbers"....

Arguments and discussions at the notorious Wannsee Conference, whereat the Final Solution was agreed upon.

We know this because one copy of the minutes survived.

The movie's title ought give some DUers embarrassed pause, I should imagine.

Conspiracy (2001 film) - Wikipedia https://share.google/t6JuANZXREjT0eswY

[tanyev]

2. They think that won't affect any Trump voters???

[Ol Janx Spirit]

20. That seems to be part of the strategy: if you can get your most ardent supporters...

...to accept the suffering your policies create for them then you can certainly get them to help you make others suffer even more.

It is very cult-like.

And they can't question it or they will find themselves right out of the cult--and then where would they be?

[Lovie777]

3. Got to pay for the many conflicts home and aboard.....................

but first and foremost, US taxpayers need to pay for his ballroom, passports and other selfish images thrust upon the US people.

[travelingthrulife]

22. Don't forget the arch we have been begging and pleading for.

And the reflecting pool he painted for the ducks.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. "Nothing will be accomplished other than increased suffering for struggling Americans."

Yeah, but we are going to let them do it anyway.

You watch.

[Ray Bruns]

5. You know what would solve this problem?

Another tax cut for billionaires and corporations.

[Swede]

9. Maybe another ill-advised war, too.

nt

[Ray Bruns]

10. Oooh! I like it!

[Hugin]

16. The scrotal throne chamber is part of the solution too.

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Indeed, it is.

[pecosbob]

34. Oh, they're working on that now...capital gains.

[Vinca]

6. The reason the relative is receiving SNAP benefits is probably because they can't work because they care

for the SSI recipient. How heartless and stupid, but hey . . . we've got airlines to buy and wars of choice to fund.

[AverageOldGuy]

7. All this is explained in The Gospel According to Trump

[NHvet]

8. Next they will come for

seniors living with their children's families who receive SNAP.

[PA Democrat]

11. This is cruel and clueless

Families who choose to have their adult child with disabilities live with them generally incur either a loss of income because they themselves provide care for the child or incur costs to have someone else provide care. Even if families want to look for other living arrangements, there are waiting lists for group homes, nursing homes and other settings.

While there are some day programs for adults with disabilities they are grossly underfunded and generally have waiting lists to participate. And the funding for these programs is being threatened by Medicaid cuts, as Medicaid block grants provide partial funding with the rest picked up by the states.

Link to full ProPublica article below:
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children

[niyad]

12. Your last two sentences are not quite correct. The suffering IS the

accomplishment! The cruelty is ALWAYS the point.

[jfz9580m]

13. I hope someone documents all this cruelty

Ugly people these and the tech overlords..this should all be directly brought back to them.

[Joinfortmill]

14. VOTE

[appleannie1]

15. Does he think it would be cheaper to put them in a facility?

I hate to tell him, Reagan closed down facilities and day care centers for mentally challenged people making it impossible for their caregivers to even work. Most neighborhoods don't want group homes. So just exactly where does he think they should live? They sure as heck don't get enough money to pay rent or even feed themselves. Besides, facilities and group homes have to be staffed 24 hrs a day, they have utilities that have to be paid, etc so that would not be saving money at all.

[travelingthrulife]

23. They want them to die obviously. Pound them down until they end up on the street

and then you can arrest them for living on the streets and put them into one of their concentration camps.

[chouchou]

17. I thought I couldn't hate that pile of garbage scum any stronger.

I was wrong.

[Lonestarblue]

18. Lyndon Johnson started the War on Poverty to help people get out of generational poverty.

Most administrations--Republican and Democratic-- have supported the goals of helping people out of poverty, though Republicans have undercut such programs when possible. Trump's war is not on poverty itself because he and people like Russell Vought simply don't care if the poor just starve and die. Their war is on poor people individually with the goal of making their lives miserable because they're poor and, to them, not worthwhile. The inhumanity of Trump and his sycophantic minions has no limits. They are all depraved.

[travelingthrulife]

25. There was a saying from the military, I think, 'you are only as strong as your weakest member."

The idea has always meant to lift up your weakest member with help.

[2naSalit]

19. This is soooo fucked up!

One of my siblings is disabled and lives with an adult disabled daughter, they live together and both rely on SSDI . What are they supposed to do?

[travelingthrulife]

21. The pro-life people strike again!

[Danascot]

24. "Nothing will be accomplished other than increased suffering for struggling Americans."

Is the guiding principle of this administration.

[Roy Rolling]

26. Do the Math, MAGAt Morons

If SSI income is reduced by free rent, that taxable event is offset by the fathers paying taxes on the amount of “income” he receives from the daughter as a tenant and the father as the landlord of the rental property.

Convoluted? Over-complex? Useless?

Yeah, that’s him.

[Wednesdays]

27. And Fox News will tell the drooling MAGAts

...how GREAT it is kicking those freeloaders off the dole.

And the MAGAts will lap it up like cats lap up bowls of warm milk.

[PCIntern]

28. I'm beginning to think that not only are they using the Nazi playbook

but are implementing the societal rules from the American territory of the victorious Nazis inThe Man In the High Castle. All deviants of all types to be euthanized.

[mike_c]

29. this is a bone thrown to the residential patient warehousing industry

IMO

[Ilsa]

30. This will backfire on the "quiver-full" folks.

There's no longer a point in having huge families to look after elderly or disabled members of the family. Might as well put them in a group home or facility so the family doesn't go broke.

Imagine aliens looking at this world, this nation, and seeing our leaders deprive the poor, elderly, and disabled of food, shelter, and medical care while giving that money to billionaires and the military industrial complex.

[Pisces]

31. This is a Nazi adjacent policy. Go after the disabled, gays and the other. What is going on?? The slow creep

into an authoritarian nation. I’m watching the new Handmaids series and I’m sure Miller is getting a lot of new ideas.

[misanthrope]

32. Trump's predecessors called them "useless eaters"

And actually moved to outright eradicate them.

[electric_blue68]

33. C R U E L T Y ! Hideous attempt!

[Passages]

35. The most vile human being ever in the White House.

It's hard for me to process that almost every day/week, there is another new low in American society.