The Social Security Administration said that people who wanted to file for benefits or change the bank where their payments are deposited could no longer do so by phone and must first verify their identity online or go into a field office.
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This is a disgrace. If they wanted to do that, they should have at least waited until Gen X was the oldest generation. Even still, accessibility to internet is not everywhere, and it’s often difficult for seniors to get to a field office. Absolute disgrace.
People that want access to their
Social Security funds must also “donate” $420.69 every month to the Trumpy 2028 campaign fund. In order to do this, one must first sign up for at least five TwitterX accounts and like every one of Elon Musky’s posts.
This figures. Our Social Security Office has the best phone support I r had anywhere. They are friendly, helpful, and responsive. And best of all, they answer the phone!
How does this improve efficiency?
It doesn’t.
Will allow Musk & Trumplicans to claim Social Security is irredeemably broken, and then steal our money.
Specifically use my money to pay for tax breaks to Musk & other billionaires
Screw these assholes
Ah, yes, now is the opportunity to start a volunteer group of young, internet-savvy tech nerds able to spend a few minutes of their video game time helping grandma learn a little internet literacy. Or is being a keyboard crack more virtuous?
No. What I realize is ours is a youth, self-obsessed, and beauty-centered culture where, at the instant anyone turns forty he's deems old, useless, and by sixty is deemed disposable. Fuck the wisdom and experience he has accumulated. All that matters is his appearance. Lets not pretend otherwise.
I have tried teaching my 83 year old father for over 10 years. He cannot retain new information and gets frustrated easily. He cannot even use a smartphone and doesn’t understand DoorDash. He has been scammed online twice. If 👵🏻 is younger, maybe it would work but many cannot
This rule will result in 85 k to 95 k more visits A WEEK, to #SocialSecurity offices, across the US acc to MSNBC. Some people will have to travel 100 miles to the nearest office. Of course, the sick and the elderly are not always great travellers. This is deliberate. They want the service to fail.
You didn't ask the most important question. What will be required to verify your identity? Passport photo, birth certificate, license, bank statements? More data of Americans will be stolen!
I work at a bank and I help so many senior citizens deal with their social security checks depositing into their bank accounts. This will be a nightmare for them
Yes. Because all retirees have access to a computer or have the mobility to get to a field office … 🙄 why make easy for people to get the benefits they earned…
So if I have my direct deposit as ck I can’t switch banks? I could use some interest on monies I’m able to leave in there, then again the way it’s been stated about over 200$ transactions in&out of an acct, it automatically tells gov so I try not to keep much in-DOGE!
Felon47 is fighting the poor, the elderly, the sick, the challenged, the traumatized. It is shameful, but it makes sense when you read Elon Musk’s dictum: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,” Musk said.
Utterly unsympathetic, cruel
A culture is often judged by how it treats the most vulnerable, of it's people. The Native American tradition of honoring our old people has a profound and compassionate history. In the bible, the meek shall inherit the earth. Trump and his allies have let greed and power corrupt, we deserve more.
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This will literally make it impossible. I had to go to my local SSA office to file a name change, showed up an hour before they opened on a Saturday, and still was there nearly until close.
Boy howdy, ain't Grannie and Gramps MAGA gunna be pissed about this changes. Them don't gots no libtard comptutor and ain't gonna go to that woke town and talk to some hi-falutin guvment woman. Jest gimme what's owed.
So, elderly & disabled people, who by definition have mobility issues, will now have to go in person to verify their identity (in the name of reducing non-exist at fraud) at the same time DOGE is closing SS field offices AND DOGE is laying off staff at the remaining field offices??? 🤔Utter madness!
Yup. That's what they want. They want deaths, and outrage and confusion, so those poor, hurting mills and bills can save us by privatizing everything--
obviously with no oversight or protections.
I'm sure their intentions are altruistic and they would never abuse or take our money, right?
Yup. They're sociopaths. Brain-worm abused animals for pleasure. Trump's niece, Mary says he "meets the criteria for antisocial personality disorder, which in its most severe forms is generally considered sociopathy..." and Musk is a nazi.
So yea. Monsters.
This is like that time Ohio Republicans passed a law requiring a driver's license or state ID to vote and then closed all the DMV offices in blue neighborhoods. Cynical-assume bastards.
Wait until a few disabled people fall and hurt themselves in the lobby or out in the parking lot identifying themselves.. Make a million dollars Sueing the social security office..
When will the spineless GOP congress put an end to this? Do they honestly think they will get voted back into office? I paid social security tax my whole life and it is now my only source of income. The cruelty of this regime is mind boggling, and all in the name of greed.
This is not without purpose. They're literally wanting people to die. They want total chaos and the best way for them to achieve their goals is by getting people angry, and seniors dying will that. Then they say it's such a mess the only way to fix it is to privatize...for profit without protections
Anyone affected by being unable to get SSA assistance by phone and unable to resolve the issue, needs to then call their federal and state rep, and their federal and state senators, every single day, until resolved.
My 78 yr old mom changes banks a couple times a year. She loves chasing the best CD rates. She doesn’t use a smart phone. She doesn’t have the internet. And she is afraid to drive more than a few routes close to her home so there’s no way she’s driving to a SSA office. She is not an outlier.
Is Social Security saying that or is "President" Musk saying that. Pretty sure shutting down the phone lines and closing field offices is the real goal and to install garbage disposal fed AI as replacement to human beings.
Republicans wage an all-out economic war, Democrats are stuck playing defense in a culture war trap. Billionaires are rigging the system, and Trump’s second term is their golden ticket. The fight isn’t left vs. right—it’s the ultra-rich vs. everyone else.
I and many others are screaming at the top of our lungs about the destruction of Social Security. Nothing will change the direction it is going until it costs them more than they are willing to lose. How do we stop them? We need to engage in asymmetric warfare. They don’t play by the same rules.
I’ll tell my 32 year old son to make his benefit appointment now. Before Trump was inaugurated, it took 6-8 weeks to get an appointment. With the firings and making everyone get appointments, he will delay new enrollees and slowly erode all benefits. Truly evil.
Republicans are gonna get run out of town even in red states. That is unless the democrats fail to explain to voters succinctly and clearly why this is the fault of republicans. Oh….who my kidding.
It’s too risky for Musk & Trump to wave a wand and make SS go away. Like a building being taken down, one brick at a time, it will eventually collapse.
The Boomers, one of the largest population cohorts in American history are in the cross hairs of these actions. It doesn’t seem wise to piss off a group that size. I hope they mobilize and go after musk and his merry band of thieves.
The only way to really fight this is if you live in a red district. Show up at their offices, and in front of their homes they if they attempt to avoid accountability. Give them no respite.
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Your constituents expressed concern about this during the town hall you didn’t attend. I assume you know this because you are psychic.
Or you just don’t care.
Social Security funds must also “donate” $420.69 every month to the Trumpy 2028 campaign fund. In order to do this, one must first sign up for at least five TwitterX accounts and like every one of Elon Musky’s posts.
It doesn’t.
Will allow Musk & Trumplicans to claim Social Security is irredeemably broken, and then steal our money.
Specifically use my money to pay for tax breaks to Musk & other billionaires
Screw these assholes
and should be stopped immediately
Utterly unsympathetic, cruel
obviously with no oversight or protections.
I'm sure their intentions are altruistic and they would never abuse or take our money, right?
So yea. Monsters.
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Doesn’t this violate the American Disabilities Act? I smell another lawsuit that this administration will lose.
How efficient!
My health vet, V.A., and the SSI office.
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Most of us pay social security tax on every penny we ever earn, but not the top %.
If we eliminate this cap and cap benefits paid out, that will save social security.
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Call out your elected officials.
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He's out of control.
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