Supplemental Security Income (SSI) provides critical income assistance for roughly 8 million disabled people and older adults. Yet the program has been left to wither on the vine for over thirty years. At a moment of historic opportunity to strengthen key elements of the nation’s safety net infrastructure, momentum is building for making long-overdue updates to SSI.

Join us on Thursday, May 27, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM ET as we discuss the human consequences of decades of federal neglect of SSI; policy options to update SSI and boost its beneficiaries’ economic security, including the SSI Restoration Act; why strengthening SSI must be part of the next economic recovery package; and new Data for Progress polling highlighting broad bipartisan support for updating SSI.

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