It’s time to restore California’s SSP Grants and Reinstate the Cost of Living Adjustment.

Californians for SSI (CA4SSI) is a coalition of anti-hunger, anti-poverty, aging, disability rights, and housing groups that have come together in response to an emergency situation in which over a million older Californians and people with disabilities are teetering on the edge of survival due to cuts made to make up for California’s budget shortfall in 2009.

It’s time that California’s poorest and most vulnerable are able to live in dignity. Nobody should have to live below the poverty line. California can and should do better.