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Originally Posted by Janke
The problem with any limit is that there will ALWAYS be someone over the limit. If the limit is increased by $83, then the people that are $84 over the limit are still left out. If you keep moving the limit, there will always be someone who is over the limit until you do away with limits entirely. Doubtful that you think everyone in the US should be paid a check or get food stamps. You may not agree with the dollar amount of the limit because your family is over the limit, but surely you don't agree that public assistance benefits should be paid to everyone, without limits.
Second, SSI is not a survivor benefit. It can be paid to a disabled child. If your neice and nephew are not disabled, there is no way they can qualify for SSI benefits. So to answer your first question, no they have never been able to qualify for SSI benefits.
Third, SSI is not a family benefit. It is paid to an individual. Doesn't sound like your mother got correct information about SSI. The federal SSI benefit is, at most, $674. If your mother is over age 65 and her own income exceeds $674, your mother cannot qualify for federal SSI benefits. I am not sure if Florida has a state supplement. California does. In states with a state supplement, the state adds money on top of the federal amount and the SSI recipients get more money to live on. Perhaps your mother only asked questions about getting TANF or Medicaid or Food Stamps because the numbers you are giving do not represent how SSI is computed.
The people who do qualify for SSI and TANF and food stamps live on less money than your mother does. It was generous and loving of your parents to take on these children. Perhaps the adult grandchildren need to do whatever is necessary to help out grandma now.
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I never said anything about they should change their limit and no I don't believe that everyone should be paid public assistance benefits without limits. I don't agree with it just like I don't agree with most of the rules set by the SSA whether it's in Florida or Alabama or any other state. I don't know anything at all about SSI; I only know what my mother told me. I was only stating my mom's situation with the kids in this post. Florida doesn’t go by one person’s income either. My mother gets SSDI and she is over 65, I have no idea how much she gets every month but Florida doesn’t go by her income alone. They add up the total income in the entire house hold and go by that. Even though most of that income is the children’s survivors benefits from their dad. My point is that the SSA rules and limits make life hard for my mother, me and most everybody else that is disabled. I know that I can't change their rules and I know that are not going to bend the rules for anyone. I still don't have to agree with or like their rules. As for the kids helping my mother, both the girls are still in school but they do most all the house work because my mother can't walk. The nephew has searched for a job since he got out of school. Jobs in north west Florida are like chicken teeth, very few and far between. Especially for a 19 year old boy with no work experience to speak of. He has worked around my brother's shop helping mechanic but he is by no means a mechanic. I doubt he knows the difference between a ball peen hammer and a torque wrench.