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Change the marriage penalties in social security law.

Created by C.J. on February 04, 2015

I am starting this petition to draw attention to the many disabled Americans who are being punished for falling in love and wanting to marry. Besides myself, I have researched thousands of other Americans who are struggling to to these penalties. If a disabled person marries someone who works and makes $1050 dollars per month, the disabled person is immediately terminated from social security. If a disabled person marries another disabled person, one of them loses a check completely. This problem has my disabled husband and I in a serious struggle. Now that I have been laid off from my job, we are struggling to survive. I reapplied for benefits, but the process is extremely long and drawn out with the hope that a person will give up.

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