Former Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow Claire Grandison and her Community Legal Services colleague have published a guest commentary for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star on the ways in which insufficient social security funding hurts those who rely on it for support.
Imagine you have a disability that makes it impossible for you to work, and you rely on meager Social Security disability payments to afford basic necessities like food, housing, and clothes.
Then, imagine receiving a confusing notice in the mail saying you might lose these benefits – your only source of income – and waiting on the phone for almost an hour to get help, and the call suddenly drops.
Now, imagine spending hours filling out two ten-page forms the Social Security Administration (SSA) says are necessary to keep your benefits, mailing them back, and then receiving a letter weeks later saying that the forms were never received.
