User:Mmckittrick0564/Disability rights movement

In the United States, disabled people are eligible to supplemental income if they meet a criteria regarding their employment and assets, this program is referred to as Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Many disabled activists have taken umbrage with the harsh criteria of this program that is meant to provide disabled people with autonomy, and argue that it keeps them in poverty and denies free right to marriage (Evans). The argument of how this effects disabled peoples ability to marry lead Representative Jimmy Panetta to introduce the Disabled Marriage Equality Act in 2022 (Panetta). This bill would allow Disabled people more autonomy when choosing to get married and remove many of the restrictions placed on their income and assets when those assets combine after marriage. Currently, if a disabled person on SSI marries a non-disabled person without SSI, they lose all benefits (DREDF)