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SSI is a lifeline for children with disabilities whose families have limited income and resources, helping cover the extra costs like medical care, therapies, adaptive equipment, and transportation. This new rule could hurt as many as 100,000 of those kids, by making it harder to qualify. 2/

SSA proposes to make the eligibility rules even MORE complicated and complex -- forcing beneficiaries to navigate more red tape and an agency that is already stretched thin to unnecessarily devote more time and bandwidth to administer the program that could be committed to higher priority needs. 3/

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This change in regulatory policy is a step backward. Lawmakers are building bipartisan support to update SSI's outdated eligibility rules for the first time in 40 yrs, so the rules stop punishing people for saving for emergencies and working part time if they're able. That's the right direction. 4/

In addition to these SSI changes, the Trump Admin's RIFs also gutted the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, which is responsible for IDEA, the key law protecting the rights of students w disabilities - leaving the office less able to enforce protections for kid in schools. 5/

This comes on the heels of OBBB, which cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid and CHIP. Together they cover about 2-in-5 children with special health care needs. Schools rely on Medicaid to cover IDEA-mandated supports, which could force elimination of other programs when Medicaid funding is gone. 6/