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Dear John,
Lawmakers determined to slash Social Security are now taking aim at the Social Security Administration (SSA) to extract drastic cuts from the agency relied on by millions of older workers and retirees. That’s because the strategy of so-called “fiscal hawks” in Congress has been: if you can’t cut benefits, cut SSA funding.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy wants to use the appropriations process to revert spending back to 2022 levels, which would impact SSA especially hard as current funding is barely enough to enable the agency to tread water. And it would lead to more office closures, staffing reductions and longer wait times.
The refusal by Speaker McCarthy and others to provide adequate funding for SSA demonstrates a failure to acknowledge the value of and the real need for the critically important services SSA provides to American workers, retirees, workers with disabilities and their families. This kind of penny-wise, pound-foolish budget approach imposes undue hardship and frustration on millions of Americans and their families.
Bottom line, imposing hardships on Social Security beneficiaries to receive information or help from SSA can undermine public support for Social Security itself — which is ultimately the goal of some politicians in Washington who want to destroy this popular and effective program.
But as we’ve seen recently, nothing is off the table for those determined to cut earned benefits that growing numbers of Americans are counting on in their retirement.
These are your earned benefits on the line — because decent service in administering Social Security is itself part of those benefits. It’s vital we fight to strengthen them, and with your signed Petition today, that is exactly what we will continue to do!
Sincerely,
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