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  1. Jesse Lee wrote about saving #SocialSecurity: "There is no reason to be entertaining benefit cuts, or outsourcing Social Security to commissions that may split the baby, when the public is like 99 to 1 against benefit cuts. Just lift the cap, and capture income sources outside of wages." #politics

  2. 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 [email protected]

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    #SocialSecurity

  3. Social Security Update: Republican Wants to End Required Worker Payments

    Senator Tommy Tuberville, an Alabama Republican, on Thursday characterized Social Security as a “scam” and a “Ponzi scheme,”…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #Business #money #PersonalFinance #Republican #retirement #scam #seniors #socialsecurity #TommyTuberville #USPolitics
    newsbeep.com/us/796227/

  4. @ChrisMayLA6 @HarriettMB @junesim63 But there ISN'T a "lack of money" - that is a #myth. The idea that the #cost of #socialsecurity is "spiralling out of control" is a #lie. One expects it from the #Tories, but to get the same thing from #Labour is absolutely disgraceful.

  5. This is what many Americans call socialism…

    this is what they don’t want their taxes paying for. This is what Project 2025 and the Trump administration say need to be cut, and what individual responsibility and empowerment should take care of. These are some of the programs many Americans say are used by lazy loafers who don’t want to work. And, no, nobody pays for their own Social Security and Medicare benefits - Both are a collective risk using an insurance concept. Americas social safety net Social Security - Retirement, […]

    quinnscommentary.net/2026/07/2