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My key takeaways: * There is a bi-partisan bill that has been introduced into the Senate to fix this. * The new savings limits would be $10,000 per person / $
by floxy 4y ago
My key takeaways:
* There is a bi-partisan bill that has been introduced into the Senate to fix this.
* The new savings limits would be $10,000 per person / $20,000 per couple, and would be indexed to inflation.
* This is senate bill S.4102 (https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/4102/text?r=5&s=1 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/410...)
* So I suppose we should call or write our senators to help push this along.
- paulmd 4y agoDead on arrival. If it’s bipartisan, who are the republican co-sponsors? Doubt there are any. And a significant number of democrats will block it. Manchin and Sinema aren’t going to “expand welfare”.
- floxy 4y ago>If it’s bipartisan, who are the republican co-sponsors? Rob Portman: https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-brown-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-reform-supplemental-security https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portm...
- paulmd 4y agoOk, one Republican co-sponsor, and it’ll need at least 11 to pass the senate (Manchin will never vote for it). If you think it’ll pass it’s probably easy money on predictit, right? It won’t, dead on arrival.
- dclowd9901 4y agoWhy have any limit at all. What the hell does a limit even accomplish?
- Sohcahtoa82 4y agoTo prevent a multimillionaire who becomes disabled from collecting disability because they don't need it. They're punishing hundreds of thousands of people in order to prevent the abuse of a few dozen.
- mistrial9 4y agonot sure where people live, but here in High Cost of Living place, I see more than a few large houses, in the hills, in bad repair, with many vehicles that have blue handicap tags that never move. My outside guess is that someone with a family history of owning property, got a house long, long ago, and rode out three or four decades of outrageous housing price increases while being careful with all the paperwork. Is this common? no. but I tell you with evidence of my own eyes, in more than a few cases, someone has a kind of stability and wealth that healthy, working people just cant seem to ever get here.