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The Trump administration has signalled it intends to make changes to the nation’s disability program that could cut or end benefits to 375,000 disabled individuals across the nation, including 7,500 in Tennessee, a newly published analysis found.

Supplemental Security Income, the nation’s monthly cash assistance program for low-income and elderly people with disabilities, currently takes into account the financial role an individual’s parent, spouse or other household member plays in determining whether someone qualifies for the benefit and how much they receive.

Benefits can be reduced by up to one-third, or about $300, if an individual with disabilities gets “in-kind” help from household members, such as living rent-free with a parent or spouse.

Until now, however, the

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