By skyforbes I am pretty sure this is an unknown so far, but just wanted to check in. My sibling, age 56, is on Medicaid in MD due to the expansion several years ago. They are diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and have been hospitalized a few times in their life. They are on anti psychotic meds and compliant. They worked many years ago, have made a few work attempts since but typically need to quit due to stress after a while.
They have applied for SSI twice and been denied.
When the work requirements hit, I don’t anticipate they will be able to obtain a job or hold a job very long. They do have some volunteer experience in their recent work history but it’s not 20 hours a week by any stretch. They do some caregiving for 84 year old parents, one has Alzheimer’s but is early stage.
Under the anticipated new requirements, do they have any hope of meeting work requirements with some combo of volunteer and elderly parent caregiving? Or would the elder caregiving, if greater than 20 hours a week, exempt them from work requirements at all. I see people saying that caring for kids under 14 is an exemption but what about elderly parents?
Any other thoughts? BTW, they are not sitting on a couch playing video games.