SSI at 50: The Safety Net America Forgot

OFF-KILTER with Rebecca Vallas

This week, Off-Kilter’s taking a quick break from the ongoing series of conversations Rebecca’s been having with leaders around the limiting beliefs we as a collective must release and replace to pave the way for economic liberation, to bring you a discussion Rebecca had last week at a virtual event hosted by The Century Foundation and the Disability Economic Justice Collaborative to mark October 2022 as the fiftieth anniversary of Supplemental Security Income, or SSI—a long-forgotten and badly neglected component of our nation’s safety net.

For more:

• Watch the full SSI at 50 virtual anniversary event
• Read more from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities about the human consequences of decades of federal neglect of SSI
• Read about updating SSI would mean to its disabled and older beneficiaries, in their own words
• Learn more about the bipartisan push to update SSI’s antiquated $2,000 asset limit

Dig into the TCF-Data for Progress polling finding overwhelming bipartisan support for updating SSI