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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael W. Frerichs

Congress should help disabled by passing ABLE Age Adjustment Act

The wheelchair racers start the Chicago Marathon, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022. (AP)

Congress has the chance to deliver the gift of greater financial security to millions of Americans with disabilities by approving the ABLE Age Adjustment Act before it adjourns for 2022.

Sending this common sense measure to President Joe Biden would build on the important work of Congress in 2014 when it passed the Stephen Beck Jr. Achieving a Better Life Experience Act, often referred to as ABLE. The legislation helped people with disabilities who depend on the Social Security administration’s Supplemental Security Income to avoid chronic financial insecurity. 

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