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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]ssi is a max of $750 a month in 2018 and if you're providing food and shelter for her there will be a 1/3 reduction, so $500 a month.

Better to have her try voc rehab, or just looking for a job--at $10 an hour she'd only have to work 50 hours a month to do as well as SSI. Plenty of people with ADHD do ok with a fast food job or something similar that doesn't require more than HS education. If voc rehab says she's too severely impaired to help, or if she tries work and can't keep a job because of disabilities, it will make the SSI claim stronger and she might even work enough to be insured for SSDI (which comes with Medicare entitlement and no asset cap).

Also, she's an adult. Unless you go to court and become her legal guardian (which is going to require the court to find that she's incompetent) you can't make her file for SSI. You can tell her she has to pay rent to live with you, and you can kick her out of your house, but that's about it.[/quote]

If she pays her mom a modest amount of rent it goes back up to $750[/quote]

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