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A lot of people overseas also rely on social security. I certainly would hope to collect something in another 20ish years as well.
Forcing people to go in person while at the same time closing down offices.
An internal memo circulated at the Social Security Administration stated that the agency is considering adding another step to battle fraud...
Nope. Bullshit. None of this is about battling fraud, and anyway ,Social Security is about the cleanest, most fraud-free agency possible. Over 99% accuracy. The claims of rampant fraud are just more Republican lies.
"The Department of Government Efficiency, headed by Elon Musk, also revealed plans to close dozens of Social Security office"
So we can look forward to waiting in lines for literal days in order to get the smallest of questions done. Its like a Futurama skit.
If it passes, there will be riots. Probably outside of the remaining Social Security offices...
"Let's piss off hundreds of thousands of people with nothing to lose, then make them all meet in the same place."
Because nothing bad ever happened when the downtrotten realise they're far from alone....
Their goal is eugenics. They don't care about killing the sick and elderly
Everyone clutch your pearls and act shocked! It’s not like Republicans haven’t been talking about getting rid of social security for years.
We should get rid of the Republicans. Traitors and fools, all of them.
did the social security offices reopen for in person needs since covid?
Doesn't matter, they're shutting more down
Uh yes a long time ago
They were when we had to get my wife's name changed recentlyish
The whole system has been designed around getting people to give up. They are just adding more holes in that system.