What Is SSI? Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) is a cash payment public welfare program that helps out individuals with low incomes. The purpose of the program is to ensure that United States citizens all meet a minimum standard of living. The program was created in 1974 and replaced a program with a similar purpose that [...]
Welfare Requirements Since the passage of New Deal legislation by Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression, a spawn of general welfare and social welfare programs have sprung up throughout the United States. Some of these programs include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, TANF benefits (“Temporary Assistance For Needy Families”), Social Security [...]
Death Index The Social Security Death Index (which is sometimes abbreviated “SSDI” and confused with Disability Insurance offered by the Social Security Administration) is a massive electronic database of records kept by the Social Security Administration (abbreviated sometimes as “Soc Sec”) of the United States which monitors and tracks almost anyone who has died and [...]
SSDI The Social Security Administration oversees the Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) program (note, the words “SSDI” can also refer to the Social Security Death Index, which is not discussed here). The purpose of the program is to provide monthly payments to individuals who are unable to work due to a physical or mental disability. [...]
