pls ask leg leaders & approps to fund LD 1666 to raise state SSI supplement and elim marriage penalty

[Maine Disability Alerts]

Dear Friends of Mainers with Disabilities,

LD 1666 was supported unanimously by the HHS Committee, the House, and the Senate. But it is now on the "Special Appropriations Table", where it will die for lack of funding, unless the Appropriations Committee and legislative leadership support the bill.

The bill would raise the "state SSI supplement" for a single person from $10 a month to $65 a month (in line with cumulative federal cost-of-living increases since 1974). The bill would also eliminate the "marriage penalty" in the state SSI supplement, so that a married couple would get "two persons worth" of the state SSI supplement ($130 a month) instead of paying a large "marriage penalty" by having their total state SSI supplement reduced.

To get this bill funded, please contact legislative leaders and Appropriations members IMMEDIATELY and ask them to FUND LD 1666 TO RAISE MAINE'S PALTRY STATE SSI SUPPLEMENT AND ELIMINATE THE MARRIAGE PENALTY IN THE STATE SSI SUPPLEMENT.

Approps Members:

margaret...@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Peggy Rotundo)

richard...@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Rick Bennett)

jill....@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Jill Duson)(

melani...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Melanie Sachs)

mark....@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Mark Blier)

nathan...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Nathan Carlow)

benjamin...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Benjamin Collings)

john.d...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Jack Ducharme)

jessi...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Jessica Fay)

andrew....@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Drew Gattine)

ann.m...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Ann Matlack)

rebecca...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Rebecca Millett)

sawin....@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Sawin Millett)

Senate Legislative leadership:

Troy.J...@legislature.maine.gov President Troy Jackson

Eloise....@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Eloise Vitelli, senate majority leader)

Mattie....@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Mattie Daughtry, sen assistant majority leader)

Trey.S...@Legislature.maine.gov Sen Trey Stewart (sen Republican leader)

Lisa...@legislature.maine.gov (Sen Lisa Keim, sen Republican leader)

House Legislative leadership:

Rachel.T...@legislature.maine.gov (Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross)

Mauree...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Maureen Fitzgerald Terry, House majority leader)

Kristen....@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Kristen Cloutier, House assistant majority leader)

William.F...@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Billy Bob Faulkingham, House Republican leader)

Amy....@legislature.maine.gov (Rep Amy Bradstreet Arata, House assistant Republican leader)

thank you!