"If he gets the chance, Donald Trump will cut Social Security and Medicare. I am confident of this not only because Trump has repeatedly said as much1 and not only because he repeatedly tried to do so when he was president but because a desire to cut Social Security and Medicare has long been central to the Republican cause."
~ Jamison Foser
#Trump #Republicans #SocialSecurity #Medicare
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https://www.findinggravity.net/p/work-at-the-mill-until-you-die
Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#Trump to limit #SocialSecurity #disability benefits for older Americans
The Trump admin is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, part of an overhaul of the federal safety net for #poor, #senior & #disabled people that could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing #benefits, acc/to people familiar with the plans.
#law #plutocracy #ableism #classism #EconomicDiscrimination
https://wapo.st/4qa8yoq
Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules
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Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of President Trump’s most loyal supporters.
https://www.propublica.org/article/social-security-disability-eligibility-trump-red-states?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SocialSecurity #Disability #Trump #USPolitics #Government
No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting #SocialSecurity Benefits
#Musk claims to have found rampant #fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
#COBOL does not have a date type, implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/
https://archive.ph/uL7g8
#Disinformation: #SocialSecurity email praising Trump’s tax bill is a lie
The #SSA sent an email claiming Trump’s bill eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients.
The reconciliation bill–which #Trump called the #OneBigBeautifulBill before signing it after #Republicans in #Congress passed it–will strip people of their #HealthInsurance, cut #FoodAssistance for the #poor, kill off #CleanEnergy development & raise the #NationalDebt by trillions.
#propaganda
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/05/social-security-administration-email-trump-tax-bill
If you are a US Citizen living abroad & receiving Social Security, you might have to fill out a form for benefits.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-some-americans-social-security-benefits-suspended-2025454
Are you on #SocialSecurity? Thanks to Trump and Musk, you might want to make sure you start saving rather than relying on the money to keep flowing smoothly.
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Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley:
“Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits... I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.... people should start saving now."
Republican #House Speaker #MikeJohnson urged fellow Republican lawmakers on Tues to avoid #public #TownHall meetings with #voters after some events turned into angry confrontations over #Trump's moves to fire #FederalWorkers & defund government programs.
#cowards #PublicDisservice #Republicans #GOP #RepresentationMatters #USpol #Musk #DOGE #FederalAgencies #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Veterans #children #seniors #disability #PublicHealth #weather #DisasterPreparedness
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-speaker-urges-lawmakers-avoid-town-hall-meetings-2025-03-04/
Fuck my life. My country's social security system is the pits. I got survivors benefits because my abusive mother died. I didn't know social security counts that as extra income. I was getting the maximum amount on SSI. I was approved for survivors benefits but then they lowered my SSI payments because I'd have extra income. I know people don't like it when disabled people get things for free, but I wasn't going out and buying cars with it. Fuck.
> Your new amount will be $125 unless you appeal.
Firstly, that number is way disproportionate to what I was getting before. The fuck? That's a 95% reduction rate! I hate this system. You bet your ass I'll appeal. I'm lawyering up. Why is it okay for a billionaire to hoard multiple houses but I can't hoard an extra, say, $100 monthly? Explain why billionaires are applauded for stashing cash and poor people like me are spat on because we maybe want to stay at home and write Fan fiction. Oh, is it because I'm not working in your myopic view of work? You don't have a clue what living with a disability is like.
News flash. Billionaires don't work either. Billionaires exploit others labor.
If you wanna help,
If you are in the US, my Zelle is kingettr@gmail.com
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I paid into social security my entire working life. I'm now receiving modest monthly benefits (on which, by the way, I pay taxes).
For the Republicans to threaten this and weaken or cripple #socialsecurity is an egregious assault on all Americans, including the 73 million now receiving benefits.
Y’all, I don’t want to cause alarm, and I may be the only one affected,which seems unlikely, but I just checked my social security statement, and my entire history is blank. #Doge is fucking shit up, y’all.
I’ve been working and paying taxes since I was 14, and I’m less than a decade away from being old enough to collect SS, and my statement shows no work history. None. I’ve been told I need to fill out a form for every year missing to send to the irs, and then send those forms from the irs to SS, so I can prove to SS I worked. None of this can be done online, and each year is a separate process.
Check your statements. We are being robbed in broad daylight.
#socialsecurity #doge #taxes #WellFuckWeAreDoomed
https://www.marca.com/en/lifestyle/us-news/personal-finance/2025/04/03/67ee79c6ca47416f308b4597.html
Since taking office, #Trump has moved aggressively to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of #immigrants who were allowed into the country under President #Biden.
Now, the admin is taking drastic steps to pressure some of those immigrants & others who had legal status to “self-deport” by effectively canceling the #SocialSecurity numbers they had lawfully obtained….
#law #immigration #labor
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/migrants-deport-social-security-doge.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=2E999096-F869-486C-80A2-740E7C065EBC
#Trump admin overrode #SocialSecurity staff to list immigrants as dead
A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office & put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.
Two days after the SSA purposely & falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, MD, headquarters.
#law #immigration #labor #Musk #DOGE
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/12/trump-immigrants-dead-social-security/
Well, #Trump is now just regularly ignoring court orders.
On Friday, Judge Hollander asked #SocialSecurity Administration Commissioner #LelandDudek to appear at a hearing on April 15, tomorrow.
Tonight, the Trump admin says it will decline to make him available.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321/gov.uscourts.mdd.577321.138.0.pdf
Egregious ruling: #SCOTUS lifted a lower court order blocking the SSA from granting access to the agency’s sensitive data to affiliates of the #DOGE.
The court separately paused a lower ct’s order that required DOGE to turn over docs as part of a lawsuit claiming the entity, like other govt agencies, should be subject to federal records requests.
DOGE will be able to access data on millions of Americans...
#SocialSecurity #Betrayal #Data #Resist #NoKings #June14 #USPol https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/supreme-court-restores-doges-access-to-sensitive-social-security-data
#Musk Spread #Lies to Justify #DOGE Takeover of #SocialSecurity
#ElonMusk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin rally in March & rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the #SocialSecurityAdministration. Scammers, he said, were making 40% of all calls to the agency’s customer service line.
#SSA employees knew the claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff began drafting a response correcting the record.
#Trump #law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/doge-social-security.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.DsQY.bU9UxVr8hOIf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
The original blogger is dead, but still, fantastic resource for everything disability https://howtogeton.wordpress.com/ #Disability #Accessibility #SocialSecurity #Housing
Holy crap
#Trump officials planned to mark 2.7 million #living people as #dead — including some #US #citizens & lawful permanent residents — #whistleblower claims
A former #SocialSecurity executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure #immigrants to leave the country.
#law #immigration #SSA #fraud #HumanRights #CivilRights #DOGE #ElonMusk #WhiteSupremacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/05/doge-planned-falsely-mark-27-million-people-dead-whistleblower-says/
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#SocialSecurity shortfall expected to accelerate, with funds at critical low in 2032
The shortfall will be driven in part by a drop in #immigration due to #Trump policies & by Trump’s #TaxCuts for corporations & the #wealthy, trustees say, resulting in “trimmed” [we’re all #SOL] #benefits.
