Penalizing Disabled Adults Living With Families

A proposed federal rule would count a relative's SNAP (food‑stamp) receipt as household income and reduce or terminate Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for disabled adults who live with family, potentially affecting roughly 400,000 recipients with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The change shifts eligibility assessment from individual need to household benefit receipt, risking increased financial strain, forced institutionalization, and legal challenges. — If implemented, the rule would reshape how means‑tested disability benefits treat family cohabitation, with broad implications for caregiving, poverty, state budgets, and disability rights enforcement.