What allows the executive branch to simply change people’s benefits without a vote on a bill from congress?
I think we have a real problem in this country — the congress apparently passes a LOT of bills where the entire operation of the bill is up to the executive.
How else can a president act like a king and decide whether we can drill offshore or not, or decide which companies have to have compliant health care and which ones don’t, or whether social security recipients can fix their SS benefits.
On the merits, this would make sense if they were simply going to require the SS recipient to include interest payments when returning the money. It was never really fair to give the money interest-free.
I would agree if I was getting an interest rate return on my hundreds of thousands of dollars of CONTRIBUTIONS I've made to the program over the last 42 years.