Achieving A Better Life Experience
Our congresswoman is good about having listening sessions throughout her entire district so she ends up in our town at least a couple of times a year. We do our best to make it to those sessions if we are able to. Usually we just listen and take the opportunity to introduce ourselves. It is educational for Gess and helps keep me aware of what our representative is up to. This time, however, I had an issue I wanted to address on Gess's behalf. The ABLE Act (HR 647) which stands for Achieving a Better Life Experience, is a bill that would ammend the IRS tax code so that persons with disabilities could save for "qualified disability expenses" to pay for things such as housing, health and wellness, higher education, obtaining and maintaining employment and other important expenses without that money counting against their assets and causing them to lose their much needed medical and essential services. This is not a bill that costs tax payers a...