Governor Jerry Brown Releases ‘May Revise’ Budget with New State Earned Income Tax Credit

Governor Jerry Brown Releases ‘May Revise’ Budget with New State Earned Income Tax Credit

While the Governor’s ‘May Revise’ budget, released last week, included the first ever Earned Income Tax Credit for California to help the state’s poorest residents, it failed to increase Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for seniors and the disabled.

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Need to Raise SSI Levels Gets Recognition from Assemblymembers Brown and Thurmond

 Need to Raise SSI Levels Gets Recognition from Assemblymembers Brown and Thurmond

Cheryl Brown (D-San Bernardino) and Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond) introduced Bill 474 to increase SSI payments for people living independently from 91% of the federal poverty level to 112%. The bill was inspired by the grassroots advocacy of the CA4SSI organizations who brought SSI recipients to share their stories of hardship during Assembly hearings on the matter.

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