1.3 Social Floors

Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable.

United States

CURRENT KNOWLEDGE

Resources

• Educational information on how to get social security for disability:   https://www.tiktok.com/@bradthomasdisability 

• Disability benefit evaluation site https://www.disability-benefits-help.org/

• Find benefits you are elligible for: https://www.benefits.gov

• Disability Speaks discord server has information on government services: https://discord.com/invite/XREpTEDWVk

• find resources by zipcode: https://www.findhelp.org

• find local resources: https://www.211.org

• learn how to live with a disability: https://howtogeton.wordpress.com

Location-Specific

• Resources for Georgia state. 

  https://svdpgeorgia.org/ 

• Resources specific to Rogers Park. May have relevant info for others. Might be outdated. 

  https://rpcrt.org/ 

Informational Resources

• Articles on philanthropy from a racial equity lens on the topics of: Accountable Advocacy, Existing Efforts, Grantmaking, Solutions, Internal Organization, websites 

https://www.racialequitytools.org/resources/plan/issues/philanthropy  

Stocks

• Social Protection Floors include:

  1. Access to essential health care, including maternity care;

  2. Basic income security for children, providing access to nutrition, education, care and any other necessary goods and services;

  3. Basic income security for persons in active age who are unable to earn sufficient income, in particular in cases of sickness, unemployment, maternity and disability;

  4. Basic income security for older persons.

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_protection_floor

  https://www.ilo.org/secsoc/areas-of-work/policy-development-and-applied-research/social-protection-floor/lang--en/index.htm

• Social security administration

• Department of labor

• Social security

• Medicare

• Medicaid

• SSI

• SSDI

• benefits/check/deposit/deduction/overpayment/backpay

• Able account

• Beneficiary

• Representative payee

• CDR- Continuing Disability Review

• FRA- full retirement age

• Payroll taxes

• Means testing

• Consultative exam

• denial/appeal/hearing

• Social security judge

• vocational expert

Numbers

• Social Security and other government systems make decisions based on outdated information. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/27/social-security-job-titles-disabled-applicants-obsolete/ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/3/10/23632910/poverty-official-supplemental-relative-absolute-measure-desmond 

Goals

• Social safety nets are inaccessible and require impassable hurdles on purpose

• Social safety net services, programs, and policies at times incorporate abusive dynamics towards those who need it such as savior complexes, future faking, etc. Here is a comparison Between Social Services and Domestic Violence: 

  https://radpride.wixsite.com/start-posting/post/comparison-between-social-services-and-domestic-violence 

• This is why nonprofits that are supposed to help people out of poverty, don’t: 

  https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRTorYxR/