SSI Blacklist

When it comes down to the “SSI shuffle," many people with disabilities have been caught up in the deck of cards.

According to the analysis completed by the Center on Budget and Policy in 2025, 57,600 disabled California residents, 35,900 New York residents, 30,800 Florida residents and 23,600 Texans lost their disability benefits or had their income severely reduced by the SSI administration. There were many cases where benefits were lost due to the errors on the SSI administration’s behalf.

I was one of the many who had their livelihoods compromised and was forced into severe financial hardship by a “judge” who made up her mind to close my case without even taking a look at the documentation submitted by doctors and psychologists that stated my condition had worsened. The hearing via telephone had my anxiety going into overdrive because I was pounced on and treated with contempt for no reason whatsoever. The hearing was rescheduled for another date and I was to receive another phone call from the “judge” to determine my eligibility but unfortunately for me, I didn’t get a call back. However, I received a letter in the mail saying that my disability benefits were terminated.

How can a “judge” be able to destroy the livelihoods of so many people without even taking the time to review any documents submitted? How can “judges” pre-judge a case with the “deserving vs. undeserving” mindset before giving citizens a chance to plead their case?

For this to be the “greatest country in the world,” the powers that be have a inhumane devilish habit of handing the people death sentences in the forms of hunger, homelessness. For those of us who are struggling with mental health illnesses, they contribute to further mental deterioration with the stroke of a pen or a stamp on paper.

The unfortunate experiences I faced include two consecutive years of being handed down my “death sentence to poverty” during the holidays. I was forced to endure the hours long wait in the SSI office, listening to the rage, despair and hopelessness of others before me in line during the “most wonderful time of the year”- baaaah-humbug is an tragic understatement!

These “judges” celebrate with their families while many SSI recipients who have lost their only means of income fall deep into hardship, depression and thoughts of suicide due to judges who possess the mindset of “deserving vs. undeserving.”

Folks like myself were dismissed without a second glance at the evidence submitted to make sure that we continue to survive, and worse yet we are sent letters in the mail from the SSI administration claiming that we owe thousands in “overpayment” from “ underpayments” we had received from day one.

Many of us, including myself, have lost our disability benefits due to the error on the part of the SSI administration only to be sarcastically told “sorry,” and with or without hostility, we are escorted out of the office by armed security guards.

This “Sssssystem” has a bad, devilish habit of using computer errors as a scapegoat to disguise the crimes committed against humanity. The computer does not come out of the box programmed to pass down “death sentences of poverty” unless “man” programs it that way. Until the spirit of humanity is restored, we, the disabled and those who work hard until age 65-70 just to qualify for the disability or retirement benefit crumbs, will continue to be “slaves to a “ ssssystem” that is wicked and brazen enough to send you a bill even while six feet under. And with that said, Amerikkka will never be “great again” unless it becomes “human again”

Queennandi