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20 Jul, 22 tweets, 10 min read
.@rebeccavallas
laying out President Biden's commitments on SSI #DemolishDisabledPoverty facebook.com/thearcus/video…
And now @mattbc! #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Matt talking about the historic nature of SSI reforms being proposed by all Democratic Presidential candidates in 2020 #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Rebecca talking about @RepBowman's leadership on SSI and leading this letter urging the inclusion of SSI fixes in the upcoming package #DemolishDisabledPoverty bowman.house.gov/_cache/files/b…
And now @RepBowman! #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Don't thank me. Thank you for doing the work of disability justice. @RepBowman <3 <3 <3
"The fact that we have not updated this program in three decades should be a national scandal." @RepBowman #DemolishDisabledPoverty
*APPLAUSE* *APPLAUSE*
So, what can you do? Text SIGN SSINOW to 50409! #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Or call 202-224-3121 and ask to talk to your Senators. Here's a short script: "I want you to include SSI in the upcoming budget reconciliation package. People with disabilities should not be forced to live in poverty!"
And @SeeMiaRoll highlighting how important SSI was to her after she graduated from high school and couldn't get a job because of her disability. #DemolishDisabledPoverty
And pointing out how many parts of SSI haven't been updated since 1970s! #DemolishDisabledPoverty
Now @AnastasiaSomoza talking about how people with disabilities are forced to choose between work and getting the financial support and health care they need. #DemolishDisabledPoverty
"Being in this fight with @RepBowman makes me proud to be a New Yorker." @AnastasiaSomoza
And now @RepPressley! #DemolishDisabledPoverty Join us here: facebook.com/thearcus/video…
"We deserve to be seen and heard!" @RepPressley #DemolishDisabledPoverty
In the same way we have neglected and left behind other elements, we have left behind SSI. Policy violence has been done to people with disabilities and older adults on SSI. We have a responsibility to update SSI. @RepPressley
@RepPressley "SSI will not cover rent and groceries in my district." @RepPressley #DemolishDisabledPoverty
"If you are forcing people to choose between cuts to their benefits and making a commitment to the person they love... no one should have to make that choice." @RepPressley #DemolishDisabledPoverty
So, so much love for @RepPressley and @RepBowman!
🙏
"Sing, choir! Sing!" @RepPressley asking everyone to call their Senators and Representatives! #DemolishDisabledPoverty

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22 Jul
A short thread about the idea of choice and the poisonous ways it's used in policy work.
There is a deep and abiding assumption choice is an absolute good. Politicians rarely say they're going to take away choice. I always think of Obama's promise that people could choose to keep their health care plan after the ACA was passed.
Except, of course, when it comes to low income people. There's no choice about working and receiving SNAP benefits--if you need help paying for food, you've got to try and work.
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A short 101 on Medicaid HCBS funding because I know it can be confusing to everyone. Medicaid is health insurance for the lowest income folks, which includes many people with disabilities. HCBS are the home and community based services people with disabilities can receive.
I say "can" receive because HCBS services are optional. Many services are mandatory, or required by the federal Medicaid law. HCBS are not. Often folks have to get on a waiver to access these services and waivers have waiting lists that can last decades.
This is partially because when Medicaid was created back in 1965, the traditional services provided to people with disabilities were institutional services--psychiatric asylums, facilities for people with physical or intellectual or developmental disabilities, etc.
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19 Apr
So big news out of Congress!
bowman.house.gov/_cache/files/b…
Led by @RepBowman @SenSherrodBrown @SenWarren @SenSanders @RonWyden, members of Congress wrote to @JoeBiden, asking for SSI provisions of the Biden Disability plan be included in upcoming legislation! #DemolishDisabledPoverty
For people new to disability policy, SSI is how we support the lowest income people with disabilities and older adults. It's an incredibly important program, but one that hasn't been updated in decades.
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17 Apr
But a mental illness is a disability. These interventions are not only inappropriate for children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, they're also inappropriate for children with mental health disabilities.
And, hot take, also really inappropriate for adults with mental health disabilities. We are outsourcing mental health care to the police.
I will, for what feels like the hundredth time, remind everyone that Florida has chosen not to expand Medicaid. Meaning that people are serious mental illness do not have access to even the basic health care available via Medicaid.
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Ah, I see the mental health and gun violence discourse had begun again. A couple of friendly reminders.
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19 Feb
Okay, there's a fight going on in my mentions, so let's do means testing for disability benefits 101.
First, people with disabilities rely on a f*** ton of benefits usually. This often includes Medicaid, housing supports via Section 8, nutrition assistance via SNAP, various state benefits, and some type of primary income assistance via the Social Security Administration.
Medicaid has asset/resource limits and income tests. The Affordable Care Act eased a lot of these up to the federal poverty level in states that opposed to giving health care to poor people.
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