Social Security Income isn't designed to help everyone. It was designed as a safety net for those who are unable to function in society. Disabled, Elderly, and Injured Workers.

Yeah

It’s not meant for people who are capable of working

@Spectre9 "loss of culture" is a popular phrase to refer to cultures being changed or people no longer being part of it.

Generally the left will be referring to minority or "oppressed" cultures.

They don't care about traditional American subcultures, like the gun culture, which they actively seek to destroy.

Or mainline Christian groups.

Hell I went to social security administration yesterday, I am on social security income because I am disabled, they actually say "LGBT people are eligible."

??? Under what logic? Just being LGBT?

Or is it not disqualifying?

*Nods.*

1st or 2nd?

Nope, not disqualifying. The DNC made it so the LGBT community is eligible.

@pratel that’s ironic, I’m pretty sure we all know what Clinton said about how the left can’t be sensible with a group of people that seeks to destroy their ideology.

Eligible for SSI, not SSA.

lul

But do they have to be elderly or something too?

See, you'd think that would be insulting.

Being LGBT is a disability.

But no, that's "progress".

@Spectre9 Again, no charity to anything "on the right"

You don't have to be disabled, elderly, or a injured worker.

Nope

My aunt would be livid.

You just have to be gay, bisexual, or transgender.

Now that's dumb.

LGBT isn't a disability.

I find that insulting.

I am disabled.

That's the kind of thing that would make lots of people very livid. How'd this not get attention? Have a link from an official source? It's the kind of thing to float around some news outlets...

Yet they are saying LGBT group, who can work, who can do things I can't are able to draw from SSI.

LGBT

As a disability

Hah

That’s ironic

That’s how most people viewed LGBT people 60 years ago

Or more

https://www.ssa.gov/people/same-sexcouples/

They are eligible for benefits.

Couples.

My aunt would be double-livid.

She's a single lesbian.

https://socialsecuritydisabilityadvocatesusa.com/lgbt-disability-benefits

Still doesn't qualify. 😎

Looks more like they're saying they treat it the same as marriage for calculating eligibility.

This is wrong... seriously wrong.

Yet no one knows about the abuse on the system by LGBT community.

OR am I misunderstanding this?

If they are getting benefits a hetero-sexual married couple is not getting, that's newsworthy.

Is it?

If they're getting the same benefits, I don't see a problem.

you ,must be misunderstanding, obviously nobody can claim anything just by saying he's bisexual

If it's just saying that homosexual marriages count as marriages under Obergfell, it's the legally correct action

@Inquisition typo. Meant to have not in there. Edited the original comment.

Oh okay.

I see that now, pratel. Sorry, dude.

Sorry for misunderstanding it.

Or dudette.

Nothing to apologize for, my mistake and poor typing.

I am not against LGBT, I am just against abuse of the SSI.

```I heard on the radio the other day that the estimate for SS insolvency just got pushed forward to 2026.``` What was their reasoning...?

Or dxde.

@Scribblehatch Not enough money in the fund.

Too many people claiming benefits.

They're going to have to fix that.

Change the formulae and stuff.

BOOMERRRRRRRS

That's...not proper english.

Like we did in Canada.

every syllable in english has a vowel.

Used to be 65, now it got pushed back to 67.

https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/AdultListings.htm

Here is a list of all the impairment that is required to get SSI.

Required.

You must have 6 mental disorders before social security takes effect!

@Dusty Morgan What are we looking for exactly?

Sorry, autism doesn't count.

I'm not seeing reproductive or anything LGBT related under endocrine.

@Inquisition Actually, 12.10 says it might. https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/12.00-MentalDisorders-Adult.htm#12_10

I saw it.

All of a sudden, /b/ is collecting Social Security benefits.

LOL.

But then they'd be able to round up 4chan...

I bet they already can.

Well they claim that Gender Identity Disorder...

A lot of places have tossed around that term.

Doesn't that have to be diagnosed though?

Because that's a real thing.

I thought they were trying to set it up as a eligibility for SSI.

http://arizona-health-insurance.com/2015/02/20/can-you-get-social-security-disability-payments-for-gender-identity-disorder/

Or it was before trans activists got ahold of it.

I'm transgender now. Being transgender is cool.

I'm a mixed-race hermaphrodite.

Super oppressed.

I guess I misunderstood, but there seems to be a attempt to get it set up as a eligibility for SSI.

Gender identity disorder can be a very serious illness

dont see why it shouldn't be elligible

A person with gender identity disorder may qualify for SSD because of comorbid conditions that develop alongside, or as the result of, being transgender. People who have gender identity disorder tend to suffer from depression, anxiety, and similar mental illnesses because of the experiences they have living as transgender individuals.

It should be noted your article was written 2015 before Gender Dysphoria was in the DSM (If I remember the date when it got added correctly)

Gender identity disorder itself does not cause physical or mental disabilities severe enough to impact a person's ability to work. Therefore, a person with the condition would not be eligible for benefits if this was the only issue he or she suffered from.

I know.

But it is one of the only information I got.