Comments on: ABLE Act: ABLE to Make a Difference?

By: Jack Lancellotta

Jack Lancellotta — Sun, 08 Mar 2015 06:55:00 +0000

Thank You, Rangeelichick for your kind words of support … sure thing – we all need to keep the ‘ball rolling’ with the many archaic elements to the ‘systems’ now in place for our Disabled American Citizens … the SSI has too many ancient parts to it as
with the $2,000 assets tests that hasn’t been modifies since 1989 … or
their-Kind Support Rule that dates back to 1972 which penalizes innocent people
that share some food (meals) with family, friends or neighbors … or how about
that $1,500 lousy dollar threshold on a burial or life insurance policy that
penalizes Rhode poor folks – kicking em right off their Disability Benefits …
is that fair .. is that proper .. let alone where the compassion may be
found.

Yep, America is got to WAKE-UP and see that our poor elder and Disabled Americans
need to maintain at least a decent standard of living … since we / they pay
TAXES of some kind as well.

Thanks
again for your optimistic show of support!!!

Jack Lancellotta
RI JAYCEE / JCI Association

By: Rangeelichick T

Rangeelichick T — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:08:00 +0000

In reply to Jack Lancellotta. Great comment, and thank you for that information! :) I will have to be doing more research now! We need to definitely keep the ball rolling to better improve the systems in place that are there to help us.

By: Jack Lancellotta

Jack Lancellotta — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 06:27:00 +0000

CONGRATULATIONS to all those
advocates that worked tirelessly to ensure some form of financial relief and
personal security is afforded to our Disabled American people. Yes, although not
perfect legislation, the age threshold of 26 is a sticky point in dis-allowing
full coverage or opportunity to those – – over that lean age – who also struggle
with ‘ disabilities’ to have some form of individual financial relief and a
minimum of economic security. However this is a great accomplishment in itself
within the labyrinth world of political bureaucracy on the federal level that
offers to those truly disabled people after years of restrictive and unfair
rule-making authority, the human and personal sense of a resemblance of economic
independence, although within a genuinely structured system. Although we hope
the developing new rule applications – for the A.B.L.E. Act – by the United
States Treasury will be promulgated sooner than later, in the interim, we all
should join together and look into recent proposals such as the SSI SAVERS ACT
and Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act to be re-introduced into
Congress with such sound and pronounce momentum for these types of upgrades to
existing legislation and rule-making. With such legislative action as the SSI
SVERS ACT or SUPPLEMNTAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT being re-introduced into
Congress on a strong bi-partisan effort, a simple, needed and well overdue
allowance to those Disabled individuals over the age of 26, would actually
possess some independent (private) savings – with no reflection on ‘tax
expenditures’ or losses to the Treasury – and shed the offensive and oppressive
burden of long-term penalties and threats of medical expulsion for simple things
as accepting a meal or small donation under the ‘In-Kind Support &
Maintenance’ Rule, which upon minimum examination, is quite repulsive to even
the average American. Let’s continue the realistic encouragement of the proper
modernization of our disability regulatory process and coalesce with such
outstanding legislators to bring about a formula that replicates the SSI SAVERS
& SSI RESTORATION ACTS in the 114th United States Congress (2015-17).