1. Pobreza Forzada y Beneficios Insuficientes.
Los sistemas de apoyo a la discapacidad están diseñados para mantener a los beneficiarios en un estado de pobreza crónica. Las prestaciones son notoriamente bajas, a menudo muy por debajo del nivel de pobreza federal, lo que dificulta cubrir los gastos básicos de subsistencia.
- Disabled people should not be forced to live at or below the poverty limit.
- Disabled people are forced to slave away--despite their disabilitydisabilities--or be impoverished--if they can even work. Ssi provides income well below the federal poverty level.
- We survive on a paltry benefit that keeps us in legislated poverty.
- Disabled people are not scamming the system the system is punitive by design. Hard to navigate and nearly impossible to get approved. You have to endure years of dehumanizing and stressful intrusions into your health life just to access a meagre benefit that keeps you below the poverty line.
2. Barreras para la Autonomía Financiera (Límites de Activos).
Las regulaciones imponen límites de activos extremadamente bajos (a menudo $2,000), lo que castiga cualquier intento de ahorro o de mejorar la situación económica. Esta estructura crea una "trampa de pobreza" donde la independencia financiera significa la pérdida de servicios vitales, incluyendo la atención médica.
- Fact many disabled people are unable to save their way out of poverty due to outdated asset limits.
- This really opens up a discussion about how disabled people are kind of forced to stay in poverty to keep their services and whatever financial help they receive. They cant have or make too much or get their services discontinued. Like, thats truly fucked up.
- The whole thing where in order to get disability aid you have to be in poverty with no assets is so evil i dont where to start. Oh, yeah, i do.
- I cant ever get married cause i could lose my benefits if i do. And if i try to get a job they slash my benefits 2 for every 1 i earn.
- The asset limit should be done away with, but if it isnt, it needs to be updated because 2k isnt enough for a single months rent in most places. Genuinely, its a unique type of cruelty keeping disabled people who rely on it stuck in poverty with absolutely no chance of getting out.
3. Discapacidad, Costos Elevados y Estrategia Política.
La discapacidad conlleva costos significativos (atención médica, equipos, accesibilidad) que superan con creces los ingresos proporcionados por el gobierno. La pobreza en este contexto no es un accidente, sino una estrategia política que algunos comparan con la eugenesia.
- Its terrifying. For those who simply cant work, therll be no way out of deepening poverty - and disability already adds significant costs to daily life.
- Being disabled costs a lot more than not being disabled. Disabled folk are more likely to be in poverty, and many arent allowed to accrue any savings.
- Disabled poverty isnt an accident or oversightits a governance strategy. It keeps us isolated, exhausted, and too busy surviving to organize.
- Poverty is a policy choice the govt chooses to let people suffer in poverty. The govt is coercing poor disabled folks to die. Its nazi eugenics garbage all over again.
- Disabled people often do not have the luxury of budgeting their way out of systematic poverty.