Social Security Cruelty

[DownriverDem]

On Tuesday I got an email from SSA that my new statement is ready. It will be easy to read and understand. I tried to sign in. Got the code & it didn't work. I was told to try later. It had me worried about my April benefit deposit. I got it the next day, but I will not forget the cruelty and worry this caused me. musk & trump are rich. What do they care?

[Irish_Dem]

1. The cruelty is deliberate. To make a fearful and docile populace.

[phylny]

2. I got the email as well.

I refused to click on it or interact.

[DownriverDem]

3. I didn't either

up to that email. I won't anymore.

[mdbl]

15. Good thinking

it could be a scam anyway. Never click on anything in an email.

[Doodley]

4. They don't care if childhood cancer research is stopped. They don't care is thousands of children are dying in Sudan.

They don't care about the damage they are doing to the planet. They only care about making themselves richer and more powerful.

[Silent Type]

5. musk and trump are rich A-holes, but they aren't going cut off SS benefits for 100 M people, roughly half trumpsters.

[travelingthrulife]

6. They don't really need the Trumpsters anymore, do they?

[MIButterfly]

8. Exactly. What do they need them for now?

They got what they wanted out of them.

[TommieMommy]

7. It's very stressful and they don't care. It should be when you get older everything is better but it's not

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

9. I thought the Social Security Administration only

communicated via US mail. Not by phone, not by email. I hear from them once a year, each December, when they send me a statement telling me what my benefit will be for the coming year.

Are you sure that email really and truly came from the United States Social Security Administration?

[Amaryllis]

11. What i thought too. THat's why i didn't click on the email. I got it too.

[DownriverDem]

12. No it was from the

SSA. BTW some folks only get emails and not paper.

[kentuck]

10. All of America is suffering under this cruelty.

It is insanity. All under the guise of "waste, fraud, and abuse". What they don't tell you is that it is they that are engaging in "waste, fraud, and abuse."

Whatever we did, this is some hellacious karma.

[dickthegrouch]

13. I'm utterly bemused by SSA

I've been formally retired since October 2024 and I seem to get a different amount every month. I get a letter telling me they've given me this extra, or taken that because (whatever), but none of it makes any sense.
I went in to my local office (and only waited an hour (!)), but they weren't able to give me a definitive reason for the one thing that really bothered me, a part of a letter which said they'd withheld some amount because of "late" something else. As far as I know nothing has been late. They said they'd research it and send yet another letter.
They've been very helpful on most occasions.
Don't try to call them though. I was three hours waiting on the phone before deciding to try my luck in the office.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. "Late" something? Really?

And did that email explain why?

I guess I'm completely befuddled because my Social Security has always been quite secure.

I started by collecting from my ex-husband's account, starting when I was 66 (and he'd turned 62), and then when I turned 70 I collected from my own account. I expect if my ex dies before I do, I'll get the larger widow's account. Lucky me, if that happens.

I do hope your situation gets resolved.

[patphil]

14. What do they care? Absolutely zero, zip, zilch, squat, bupkis, nada.

In fact it's worse than not caring. They resent all that money being "given" to the elderly, even though it's their money.
Their view is that it's a bank just waiting to be robbed.

[Warpy]

16. I'm in the enviable position of not really needing it

but I live in an independent and assisted living facility where most people do, it's the difference between affording a place where help is available if they need it versus being in a studio apartment where it is not. Social Security in combination with what they managed to save/invest allows them safety and dignity.

That's what you're paying those premiums for, younger people. Please don't allow dogmatic and ignorant Republicans to get their grabby hands on it. While the trend of the stock market has historically risen, it can also go down and stay down for prolonged periods. Social Security is not an investment, it's insurance. Pay the premiums and live long enough, it will pay out. Never forget the difference but good luck explaining it to a cement skulled and dogmatic Republican.

[Fil1957]

17. At the risk of being repetitive, the cruelty is the point, and boy do they revel in it!