Public Comment

For millions of disabled Americans who do not file tax returns because we live on disability benefits, the third stimulus payment hasn't yet arrived in our bank accounts.

The federal government under the Biden-Harris Administration is in its early stages of being put together. They've probably had to rebuild many, many things from the ground up--this is because the Trump was too busy golfing and trying to stage a coup to attend to running the U.S. Government.

However, it was a relatively simple task for the Social Security Administration to hand over records to the IRS, so that the payments for disabled and seniors, which happen to be those in the most fragile positions, so that we could be paid. The one-month delay, when we were essentially promised otherwise, could have devastating effects on many, who may have banked on getting this much needed money.

I borrowed eighty dollars from my brother, and that's the limit of it. This is because I had my doubts of whether things would transpire as promised. Yet, there could be thousands of people living on Social Security and/or SSI who believed the government would deliver what was promised, when it was promised, and who may have banked on this. This could lead to falling out the bottom trapdoor built into society, a door that leads to homelessness and/or incarceration, and/or death. Is there an ulterior motive? It would be paranoid to believe that. But is there?

Our system seems to be designed with some built in boobytraps. For example, overdraft on bank accounts. If you do not keep a hawk's eye on banking, and if you are poor, it becomes a real possibility that your account could become overdrawn, leaving you without enough money to pay rent. This is because any overdraft invokes massive fees.

A generalized example: not knowing and following the various laws that can get you in trouble. As soon as you have an arrest record, you are unable to do a number of things. This is partial exclusion, and it may prevent being able to secure adequate employment.

There are many ways that society has for ejecting people. The one-month delay in the stimulus money qualifies as one of those ways.