So SSDI and SSD are the same thing? Why does one thing have more than one name?

It seems I finally understand the difference between SSDI and SSI at least. It is not easy figuring these things out. And no one tells you about them.

My previous post was regards to when I got on disability, over a decade ago. Besides, you never heard of a family living in a crack hotel? That was our last home, actually. Now we have a new place.

I am not working, because I am disabled. Obviously. MY wife takes care of the kids. Working for $100 a week(if she were so lucky) wouldn't even cover child care. And we would lose way more benefits. She doesn't speak any English. There are no jobs around for hundreds of miles. 45 year olds are fighting to get $7 an hour at Micky D's around here. Where is she going to get a job? What is she going to do? Nothing, that's what. The other adults in our family. don't live anywhere near jobs, and cannot get work anyway, because their skin is dark and they are not tall enough. In the USA, children generally cannot work. Not sure where my toddlers and infants should seek recruitment?

Why does the government owe my family benefits? Because it is their RIGHTS! May I ask what country you are from?

Born and raised in the US and no one but my parents and my spouse and myself ever supported me.

Yes there are entitlement programs that can be paid to low income people who don't or won't or can't support themselves. But there are rules that have to be met. I find it odd that a family of 12 (some adults and some children) expect to be supported by a disabled adult who is unable to work who is on a welfare program (SSI). What was your wife's plan to support herself and her family before you came along? And these other dark short adults, what was their plan? If they can't find jobs in the town you choose to live in which is 100 miles away from any place that has jobs, it seems to me that all of you should move 100 miles or 500 miles or 1000 miles to those cities that have the jobs that these short dark people can do.

Why are the two (multiple, more than one, dual) names (titles, monikers, designations) for programs (laws, agendas, policies)? I could come up with even more - DIB, Title II, Title 2, T2, Title XVI, Title 16, T16, SSI/SSP. English language is full of synonyms.

Your wife could learn English. You have a pretty good command of the written word so you could teach her. Then some day she could find a better paying job and you could stay home with the kids and even later, she could make enough money that you no longer qualify for SSI and just stay on SSDI for the rest of your life and not be on public assistance, just the earned benefits of SSDI. I think that is the best part of being an American; freedom to succeed if you are willing to make the changes that will get you to your goals but still a safety net of welfare benefits for those who fall on temporary or long term hard times. Keeps them from starving and going homeless, but it is work, jobs, and education that will move your family ahead, not welfare.

Or you and your family could stay where you are, make no changes and continue to struggle.

You have Medicaid and may soon have Medicare. Do your children a favor and get periodic physical and mental exams. I am sure they want you to stay around and healthy for a long time. Then you may have a doctor who can agree to what you say is obvious.