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Roxi Horror 💀🌸@roxiqt.com |
While we're talking about how everyone should be able to marry the person they love, here's a reminder that disabled people still can't get married legally because they will have their benefits taken away. In many places, they can't even -live- with their partner unmarried without losing benefits.
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Greygoth
@greygoth.bsky.social
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Does… does this count with autistic people (for me personally AuDHD) as..as well….😰😨😨
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HeyKojiro
@heykojiro.com
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Or became disabled after marriage and the government just says "lol git rekt n00b," leaving us with a choice that no one should have to make.
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Dana Bius
@algeiban.bsky.social
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That depends on what kind of benefits you're talking about. Under Social Security disability, Title 16 benefits are income-based and your spouse's income is considered, but Title 2 benefits based on your work history are not.
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recklesscoder
@recklesscoder.bsky.social
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Thank you for posting this. It led me to this article which was very educational.
cdrnys.org/blog/disabil...
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Ruhiel.
@voidmawzz.bsky.social
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Yeah in my state even before I was married I wasn't qualified bc my wife makes 5k over the annual limit 🥲 we can't afford to live on our own but we can't get help either
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Eljay
@eljay59.bsky.social
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In Australia our governments don't differentiate between any type of relationship. Effectively, if you are living with anyone involving mutual support then the relevant departments will not consider you single and make the appropriate adjustments to benefits.
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ScaryTwink™ 🔜gpn,EF
@spottyserval.furry.energy
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I didn't know this was happening, holy s that sucks..
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TommyBenBergman
@tbapple.bsky.social
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We have spouses of deceased retires who can’t remarry because they would lose their health benefits. Only the spouse has this restriction, the retiree can be a window, divorced, etc and they can marry someone with 5 kids and get them all on their health insurance, many with no change in cost.
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Dëad Børkchettå
@deadbarchetta.bsky.social
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Or have more than $2000 in their checking account
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Emerald Lavigne, subsumed by despair
@leftoidsadhu.bsky.social
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"holding yourself out as married" is sufficient to get your benefits slashed or taken away. The United States is not a civilized country
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Tiah Marie Beautement
@mstiahmarie.bsky.social
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Brutal and cruel.
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Amy Cogan
@whynotgrl67.bsky.social
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Wow Im on Medicare Disability and thank the gods, its finevto be married.
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Marla 🏳️⚧️
@desperatemarlas.bsky.social
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That's absolutely disgusting 😔
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amdiamanti
@amdiamanti.bsky.social
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This, and also it affects family arrangements for disabled people generally. If an adult disabled person is cared for by a parent or other family member, even the most basic decisions are complicated by having to calculate the possible loss of benefits and similar financial consequences.
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Erik Engheim
@erikengheim.bsky.social
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That is messed up. I don't think we here in Norway have any kind of support which takes into account marriage status. That seems strange. But Anglo systems seem very means testing oriented in general. Any excuse to cut aid of any kind.
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Jen Teyran (DMs Open)
@voidneko.bsky.social
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The government hates disabled people. Disability checks are basically supplemental income but you can't exceed $2000 total.
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Eski🌱
@eskiworks.bsky.social
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My husband doesn't get benefits specifically because we are married. My below poverty line income is supposedly enough for two people! 🤷
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Mary (geographile)
@geographile.bsky.social
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Some of this depends on where they live but to a large extent, yes.
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𝖠𝗍𝗍𝗂𝖼𝗎𝗌-∅︀𝟤𝟥
@titanspeakerman.bsky.social
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yea, all while not getting enough 2 live w/o help! i no ppl n the us have 2 hide cash their friends give them 2 help so it's not counted against their 1k usd they're expected 2 live off each month. it rly feels like the gov wants 2 look like they're helping but don't rly want disabled ppl 2 survive.
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costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
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Whenever I hear someone saying, "Greatest country in the history of the world," I find my gaze drifting towards the sun.
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Trish Wilko
@slashwilko.bsky.social
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It's the same in the UK Roxi, what about people's dignity? Pisses me right off🤬
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Kanna Banana 🏳️⚧️🇧🇷
@kanna-banana.bsky.social
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that's so fucked up
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Huskitale 💕
@huskitale.bsky.social
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You learn something new every day, sadly not always good things. :(
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Meek 🔜 Carolina Geekfest 🩷
@themeekwarrior.bsky.social
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We need another saint to come and secretly get people married so the government doesn't know and they don't lost their benefits. Like Valentine but for disabled people instead of Roman soldiers.
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
@vinchenzojackal.bsky.social
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The dumbest part is that laws like this were made in the 1920's, back when Eugenics was massively popular in the West at that time period in the USA, UK, and Germany. The laws were made to compliment the ideology of helping reduce and kill off populations deemed to have 'inferior genes'.
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😈Kat😈
@katastrophicimp.bsky.social
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It's especially egregious when you consider a major reason for the push for marriage equality in the first place was to avoid next of kin problems with AIDS, and that it's based on "cohabitation" and apparently would deny gay people benefits over it even before you could legally marry each other 🙃
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RickinBaltimore
@rickinbaltimore.bsky.social
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The rules haven't changed since being put into place in the 1920s. It's asinine that a disabled person can't get married for fear of losing their benefits.
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𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘺
@wishfulgirl.bsky.social
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do they apply such restrictions apply to couples who both have congenital conditions and 100% probability of having children with no expectation of a normal quality of life?
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Intellectual Explorer
@driftingthrough.bsky.social
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Shofar So Good🟣
@shofarsogood.bsky.social
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I love that the government assumes the partner of a disabled person is a caretaker, even when both parties are disabled.🤬
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Lady Liberty Latina 🇵🇷/🇺🇸
@ladylibertylatina.bsky.social
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I didn't know tht!!That is outrageous!
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Nielson Rolim
@nielson.bsky.social
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In Brazil, you can receive the value of the minimum wage from the government if the your income per family member is lower than 1/4 of the minimum wage. Doesn't matter if you're married of not
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Doors In The Labyrinth
@doorsitlabyrinth.bsky.social
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lucky enough that me and mine can live together (have before they were able to be on disability). My life will never end up the way I thought it would, but the good news is it has caused me to evaluate what I want/need and am better off for it
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Adam Poling
@goobjones.bsky.social
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Getting married a second time would be financially difficult for me in regards to my SSI.
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SnöillerΘΔ(fert/ferts)(COMMISSIONS OPEN)
@snofitzroy.bsky.social
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Reminds me of how I have to embellish my situation a little every time I go to renew the benefits I did manage to clutch. Like dude I just wanna eat, I shouldn't have to tell the government half truths to get money for food Also I never got the stim check because of dependency BS.
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Soft
@softicat.bsky.social
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Was recently asked why my partner and I haven't married yet after being together for 13 years. This is why, haha.
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BrassCastle MA $47/$700
@brasscastle.bsky.social
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Fucking over disabled people is just another way America fulfills its Constitutional mandate to promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of Liberty for all.
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gameipedia 📕 Vtuber
@gameipedia.bsky.social
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As someone in the US if I didnt live with family I wouldnt be able to afford a home at all
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Chris in SF
@chrismsf.bsky.social
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This is absolutely not true. At no time in the federal disability process was I even asked about marital status or a partner’s income. And I receive full benefits.
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