“Social Security Won’t Let You Have a Nest Egg”: The Case for Updating Supplemental Security Income’s Asset Limit
The roughly 7 million older and/or disabled Americans who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) must adhere to numerous complex, rigid, and outdated program rules in order to keep their benefits, one of the most punishing of which is the asset limit. SSI recipients are limited to just $2,000 in assets (including cash, money in bank […]