Good! All these cut-backs are a violation of the ADA!
#SocialSecurity #ADA #Disability
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/musk-doge-sued-by-disabled-contingent-over-social-security-cuts
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
Via Rupar:
#JDVance straight up lies on Fox & Friends, claims 40 percent of people calling the #SocialSecurity hotline are "actually committing fraud."
Musk's 'illegal' meddling is blocking seniors from accessing Social Security: Dem senator
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-social-security-2671661960/
Social Security is one of the most successful programs in the history of government. Celebrate it--and leave it alone.
Booker is still at it, talking about social security, the greatest anti-poverty program we have.
Now he’s yielding for questions to another senator (he just gave him a shoutout for a video about his mother and connected that back to the need to protect our older generations and protect social security)
https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE?si=V9CGhbxa8BoprrFc
#DOGE also announced drastic cuts at depts that provide critical #SocialServices including #VeteransAffairs [#VA], which administers #healthcare for #veterans, & the #SocialSecurity Administration, which sends out checks to #retired, #disabled & #widowed Americans [money Americans put into the #SSA out of their own paychecks].
#OPM …has laid off >200 of its own employees & allowed >400 to *opt in* to *voluntary* exit programs since #Trump took office…
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.
Cruelty and Indecision: Trump’s Recipe for Economic Chaos
> The pain and damage are piling up. Will #Republicans next raid #SocialSecurity and #Medicaid to pay for tax cuts?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/cruelty-indecision-trumps-recipe-for-economic-chaos #DonaldTrump #MAGA
I just tried to login to the SSA.gov through Login.gov. New procedure for #SSA you have to go through a multi-step identity verification and it requires your phone and taking pictures of your state driver's license or state non-driver ID, no other type of government ID is allowed so if you don't have one of those, you don't get into your SSA account. The last time Login.gov made me verify myself was in August. For some reason this time the browser on my phone (ffx) would not take a picture. I checked the app permissions and rebooted the phone. Still would not take a picture so I really wonder if there's something about the Login.gov page itself that is malfunctioning. The other option is to enter all your details and then take your ID to a post office along with a barcode that they issue you (which I had to take a picture of off the f*ing computer screen). Imagine someone who is 80 years old trying to fuck with this shit. Just imagine it. Jesus christ. #fascism #DOGE #SocialSecurity
Anyone on #SocialSecurity should
Log on to my social security and download their statements and income confirmation letter.
#DOGE plans to rebuild #SSA's antiquated #COBOL code base in months instead of the years it'd take to do it safely, risking benefits & system collapse.
But, hey, when did Musk/Trump/DOGE ever give a crap about doing anything safely? Or right?
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
DOGE is putting together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems entirely off one of the oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk. Read more at @WIRED (subscription may be required). #SocialSecurity #DOGE #ElonMusk #SSA #COBOL #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/98qM1j
"In a televised Cabinet meeting on Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she planned to 'eliminate FEMA,' the Federal Emergency Management Agency that responds to national emergencies like hurricanes."
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity #FEMA #KristiNoem #NaturalDisasters
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Ruthlessly gut government so that one can seize control of the carcass and do what one wishes with it:
"Today, Emily Davies and Jeff Stein of the Washington Post reported that Trump officials are looking for cuts of between 8% and 50% of the employees in federal agencies. ...
Washington Post reporters Lisa Rein and Hannah Natanson warn that 'Social Security is breaking down.'”
#Musk #Trump #FederalGovernment #dictatorship #Yarvin #Project2025 #SocialSecurity
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28/ BREAKING, Social Security again pushed back its timeline for In-person identity proofing for people unable to use their personal my Social Security account for certain services will be effective April 14, 2025.
The Trump - DOGE created chaos has received great pushback and is constantly changing, making seniors and the disabled nervous.
Under the updated policy beginning April 14, 2025, individuals applying for Social Security #Disability Insurance (SSDI), #Medicare, or Supplemental Security Income ( #SSI ) who cannot use a personal my Social Security account can complete their claim entirely over the telephone without the need to come into an office.
Individuals who cannot use their personal my Social Security account to apply for benefits will only need to prove their identity at a Social Security office if applying for Retirement, Survivors, or Auxiliary (Spouse or Child) benefits
People who do not already have a my Social Security account can create one at www.ssa.gov/myaccount/. It's beneficial whether you receive benefits or not.
Now, for any #SocialSecurity overpayments that occur after March 27, 2025, the recipient's future #benefits will be withheld until the overpayment is reimbursed.
For those beneficiaries currently reimbursing an overpayment, the withholding rate will not change, the agency said.
An overpayment can happen when a beneficiary fails to update a change in income, for instance. Or the #SSA can incorrectly calculate benefits.
In an Aug 2024 report, the SSA's IG estimated the agency made nearly $72B in improper payments – mainly overpayments – during fiscal yrs 2015-2022. That accounted for <1% of all benefits paid during that period, but as of Sept 2023, the agency had $23B in uncollected overpayments….
#SocialSecurity is reinstating its controversial plan to withhold 100% of people's #benefits if the agency has *overpaid* them.
The change reverses a policy that limited withholding to 10%.
Starting Thurs, March 27, the #SSA will reverse its policy involving overpayments to recipients. Sometimes Social Security, which pays benefits to ~70M people monthly, totaling about $1.6T in 2025, pays a beneficiary more money than they should have gotten.
#law #Trump #Musk #DOGE
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/26/social-security-overpayments-change-march-2025/82651483007/
