Supplemental Security Income
Over eight million Americans, all of them at least age 65 or unable to work because of severe disabilities, rely on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program for their survival. NSCLC seeks to update the long neglected program which was designed for 1972, not 2011.
Improving SSI SSI provides little more than bare survival. An SSI recipient cannot have more than $2,000 in available resources and, in most states, cannot have a monthly total income exceeding $694, an amount significantly below poverty level.
Refugee Eligibility NSCLC seeks to repeal time limits on SSI eligibility for humanitarian immigrants (primarily asylees and refugees). Benefits for 3,000 humanitariran immigrants were suspended on October 1, 2010.
- Court Upholds Rehab Act Claim for Blind Participants in SSA Programs
The decision is an important victory for the estimated 3,000,000 participants in Social Security programs who are blind or have low vision, the overwhelming majority of whom are over the age of 80.
A district court in California has denied jurisdict...
- NSCLC Challenges SSA Policy on Alleged Probation Violation
A lawsuit has been filed by NSCLC on behalf of a nationwide class of thousands of individuals, who have lost their Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, challenging the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) policy of suspen...
- Have You Seen a Fleeing Felon?
Since the Social Security Administration began a computer-matching program in cooperation with law enforcement agencies in several states, the number of people affected by "fleeing" beneficiary provisions has increased dramatically in the SSI program. ...
- Tenth Anniversary of “Welfare Reform” – Impact on Elderly and Disabled
It was ten years ago this past Tuesday that President Clinton signed into law the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996," the so-called "welfare reform" law. While there has been a spate of coverage of...
