Reply #25: Right blood relationship or marriage causes troubles with SSI.

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I also had a friend that was getting SSI and everything was going great for him and his SO, they had a kid together, got married, the next thing he knew his SSI was being cut off. SSI told him it was his wifes place to support him. After much fighting, his wife is mentally slow, they now are both on SSI, she gets 1/2 of what he gets. The case worker he deals with at SSI told him that if they had been just living together, they both would recieve full SSI benefits. Like I said depending on the state one lives in, rules are either enforced or over looked. As neither one of us are blood related to SO's step parents, SO's step dad was married to SO's mother when SO's mom got pregnant with SO by another guy, she just calls him dad. The step mom is SO's dads 3rd wife. We were told that if we moved back to my home town with my parents, then I would lose my SSI benefits. What it comes down to from my understanding is the rent is so high, a person can not support themselves unless they had access to the low housing places that charge a percentage of your disability income for rent. I been rejected from that program and can not get into one of those places. I'm also going by what a case worker told me when I had to move out of a high crime area, slum lord kicked me out, the worker told me my best bet was get a room mate and share rent.