More to Say: Love and Marriage and Disabilities and Money
Pantsuit Politics
Sarah & Beth
4.6 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We're sharing an episode of our Pantsuit Politics Premium show, More to Say, that Beth released earlier this week. To support the show and get access to content like this multiple times each week, subscribe to our Premium content on our Patreon page or Apple Podcasts Subscriptions.
On September 13, 20 couples got married in a ceremony on the National Mall. It was both a celebration and a protest. The couples included people with disabilities who risk losing life-sustaining benefits by marrying people who are not disabled. Today, we're talking about the marriage penalties written into federal law and how those penalties can be eliminated.
If this episode speaks to you, I hope you'll consider sending a note to your representative today. It can be straightforward: "I learned about marriage penalties in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid regulations on a podcast. This seems wrong to me. I hope you will look into and support the Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act (HR 6405) introduced last January by Rep. Jimmy Panetta."
RESOURCES:
- What’s Next In ‘Marriage Equality’ For People With Disabilities?’ (Forbes)
- Disabled Couples Make a Plea for Marriage Equality at Washington Rally (The New York Times)
- Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
- Disabled Adult Child (DAC) Marriage Penalty
- Seeking Marriage Equality for People With Disabilities (The New York Times)
- Rep. Panetta Introduces the Marriage Equality for Disabled Adults Act
- A local couple’s dream to get married has become a national advocacy campaign for inter-abled marriage equity. (Monterey County Weekly)
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, this is Elise, the Managing Director of Pantsuit Politics. |
| 0:04.4 | Every once in a while, we like to give you a glimpse of what's happening over on our |
| 0:07.6 | premium channels, and today is one of those days. |
| 0:10.5 | Yesterday, Beth released a premium episode about how complicated the choice to get married |
| 0:15.0 | can be for a person with disabilities. |
| 0:17.5 | We love our premium spaces, in part because they allow us to step back from the main headlines |
| 0:21.9 | of the day and dive deep into important issues like this one. |
| 0:25.4 | And of course, we dive deep into the headlines as well, but we also have the space to do |
| 0:29.5 | things like this. |
| 0:31.0 | We hope you enjoy this free episode of More to Say, one of our premium shows. |
| 0:34.8 | And if you're not already part of our premium community, we really hope you'll consider |
| 0:37.8 | joining us either through Patreon or Apple Podcast subscriptions. |
| 0:41.2 | The links to do so are in the show notes. |
| 0:44.6 | This week is such a year. |
| 0:45.6 | There's a Republican presidential primary debate tonight. |
| 0:49.0 | Tomorrow, House Republicans will hold their first impeachment inquiry hearing Saturday |
| 0:53.0 | as the deadline to fund the government. |
| 0:54.6 | It's a lot. |
| 0:55.6 | And we will get to all of it, I promise. |
| 0:57.6 | But today, I want to go in a totally different direction. |
| 1:00.7 | I want to talk about marriage and disabilities. |
| 1:04.1 | On a Wednesday afternoon this month, September 13th, 20 couples gathered on the National Mall |
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