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When Disability Benefits Create Impossible Middle Grounds

My disability makes it hard to work but I make too much money to qualify for assistance and not enough to live on.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The person exists in a bureaucratic gap where they are simultaneously too functional and too impaired for available support systems.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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