The Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program supports over eight million low-income disabled children and adults, and low-income adults 65 and older. These individuals receive maximum monthly cash payments of less than 75% of the federal poverty level. SSI benefits are reduced by other income and stopped altogether when resources exceed a limit set back in 1984. SSI recipients are trapped in poverty and experience housing instability that the regulatory scheme prevents them from resolving.

Since 2007, the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) has successfully represented more than 3,100 disabled individuals, either homeless or at imminent risk of homelessness, on their claims for federal SSI disability benefits through its SOAR Project. SOAR (SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access and Recovery-Technical Assistance Initiative) was developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as an expedited SSI/SSDI benefits application process for targeted disabled individuals who are homeless or at risk for homelessness.

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