To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate

Allow Disabled Persons to Marry Without Loss of Benefits

Allow disabled persons who are on their parent's or grandparent's social security benefits to marry without automatically losing their benefits.

Why is this important?

Individuals who qualify for social security disability on either their parent's or their grandparent's benefits are discriminated against when it comes to marriage. These are people who became disabled before the age of 22 and did not work enough qualifying hours (ie tax paying job) to have enough of their own social security benefits to qualify. When they sign a marriage certificate they automatically lose all of their disability benefits, including monthly stipend and medicare health insurance. How is this fair? Is the assumption that once you're married your spouse can provide monthly income and health insurance for the disabled person, or that they're any less disabled? We need to fix the broken system that prevents disabled persons from marrying as this is flat out discrimination.