Social Security is introducing a way for my Social Security account holders to access their number & card, digitally, so it is not necessary to carry around their Social Security card. Beginning this summer it will be possible to access the number in a secure manner for purposes other than dealing with the Social Security…
Acting Social Security Commissioner, Leland Dudek has voiced the agency’s full support for President Trumps memorandum “Preventing Illegal Aliens from Receiving Social Security Act Benefits”. The President’s memo directs SSA to take several steps to stop illegal aliens and other ineligible people from drawing benefits. Among those are investigating whether people over 100 years of…
Summer 2021 Newsletter STILL STANDING…AND PRACTICING I published the first issue of Social Security & You in Spring of 1993. Some years I’ve published more issues than others. The most recent issue was dated Spring 2019: over 2 years ago. The world was a much different place then. Especially for me. Read the full newsletter…
Spring 2019 Newsletter An Opioid Story I’ve changed his name. Let’s call him Gerald. He was a laborer. And by that I don’t mean that he just did physical work. He was a card-carrying member the Labor’s Union local. And that meant a lot to him. I represented him for Social Security disability and Michigan…
After his re-election in 2004, President George W. Bush made reforming Social Security his #1 domestic agenda. He proposed phasing out Social Security in favor of individual retirement accounts that could be invested in the stock market.
Despite a strong push by lobbyists for the investment industry, the support both publicly and in Congress was lacking and the proposal went nowhere.
Now former Vice-President, Mike Pence, who may be taking a run at the Republican nomination for President himself, is raising the issue again.
House Republicans who have taken control of the lower house of Congress have floated the idea of cuts to the popular federal program, despite polling which shows the concept remains unpopular.
Former President, Donald Trump, opposes the idea, stating recently “Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security”.
The Republican Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, supported raising the retirement age for Social Security when he was in Congress.