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This gap widens for Black women and other women of color. Could I afford to live on my own in Pittsburgh? Assuming I could find a housing voucher and decent housing, maybe. But it would be a full-time job to survive even in this allegedly affordable city. I worked hard in the traditional paid workforce until my disability required me to stop. I still work hard as a blogger, activist and artist, but without pay since My capacity to perform side hustles or a very part-time job is limited by my health and the Social Security rules that restrict how much paying work recipients can do without compromising their full disability check.
The assessment process and reauthorization procedures are exhausting. The relentless inefficiencies and implicit threat of losing benefits wears you down, year after year.
It could get even worse as the Trump Administration is taking steps to revise social security disability insurance to require more reviews, more paperwork, more barriers. I can admit that I feel a nagging concern that even this essay could trigger a review and target me for more administrative scrutiny simply because I criticize the system.
I am grateful that I was able to work hard for so many years, but I resent that my value to society comes from that work rather than from my humanity. I am not ashamed to be on SSDI although I am shamed by how poorly we value and treat people with disabilities.
Kerr can be reached at pghlesbian gmail. When we push for transparency on issues that affect the public, like in the use of facial recognition software by Pittsburgh police, things change.
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Email address: Submitting Thank you, your sign-up request was successful! Please check your email inbox to confirm. Other non-medical criteria to qualify for SSI include having limited assets and a qualifying citizenship or immigration status.
SSA uses a five-step process to determine whether a nonelderly adult qualifies as disabled for purposes of receiving SSI Figure 4. For example, using one definition of functional disability, more than six in 10 nonelderly Medicaid adults who report a functional disability do not receive SSI Figure 5 A notable share of initial decisions denying SSI eligibility are reversed on appeal Figure 6.
Thirty-five percent of applications involving medical determinations were approved at the initial application stage. For example, the average wait time between an ALJ hearing request the second appeal level and a hearing date ranged from five months to over 16 months , depending on the hearing office location, in March SSI eligibility also is reviewed for other reasons, such as a return to work, increased wages, or completion of vocational rehabilitation training.
Working people with disabilities experience disproportionate job loss, compared to workers without disabilities, during economic downturns, 39 and SSI applications generally increase when the unemployment rate increases Figure 7.
This trend held during the Great Recession and subsequent economic recovery. Unemployment Rates, SSDI applications in these projections. The pandemic has presented additional challenges that have not been present during other economic downturns.
For example, the need for social distancing measures has closed SSA offices to the public since mid-March SSI enrollment remained relatively stable in the early months of the pandemic but began to decrease as the pandemic continued.
Then, beginning in , annual SSI enrollment has declined slightly each year. The overall decrease in enrollment from April to April is consistent with the general recent trend of annual SSI enrollment declines since
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