Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

The Trump administration is poised to penalize disabled adults simply for living in the same home as their families.

A rule change pushed by White House and DOGE officials would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their monthly SSI benefit, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — or ending their support altogether.

These cuts would affect not just younger disabled adults still living at home with their low-income parents, but also older people with health or financial problems who have had to move in with their adult children on tight budgets.

All told, as many as 400,000 poor and disabled people and indigent older people across the United States could have their support cut or eliminated, according to our analysis.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children