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...students involved in the action were part of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), a Philips Brooks House Association-affiliate, and within a couple of minutes of our arrival on campus, we were greeted by members of a private security firm, Security Systems International (SSI), who physically prevented us from handing out pieces of paper to people walking by. Along with several Business School administrators, they detained us until the HUPD arrived...
...critics contend it has been abused by families whose children are not truly disabled. "The standards are vague and easily met," says Representative Jim McCrery, a Louisiana Republican and supporter of the new rules. "Some people regard it as just a super welfare program." The assault on children's SSI began three years ago, when a spate of news reports carried charges that parents were coaching children to act out mental disabilities. Among these was a 1994 story on ABC's PrimeTime Live titled "Crazy Checks," which offered anecdotal evidence of cheating in what it called "a government program gone...
What will happen to those who lose SSI? Many will have to give up treatments ranging from speech training to medicine. Others may end up homeless, since SSI families are poor and the check is a large percentage of household income. And some families may be torn apart. Organizations like the Arc, formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens, say they have been inundated with calls from parents afraid they will have to give up their children to foster care or institutionalization. "People tell us this is what's holding their family together," says Arc spokesman Marty Ford. "If you pull...
...There was one night when SSI [the private security force at Harvard Medical School] was on the radio and you couldn't understand them," said one guard. "So a guard got on the radio and says, `why don't you all use the telephone until you learn to speak English...
Elderly widows who have never worked fare even worse. They rely on Supplementary Security Income (SSI), which pays only about $4800 per year in many states...