Call your Congresscommie and ask them if there is a Trust Fund. They will say yes. Then ask if so how come there is a chance it will not be paid. My idiot said because the cuts may stop them from being able to afford to mail the checks due to the lack of funding. But assured me the money was in the Trust Fund. I said well in that case I will pay the postage...he hung up. This is not a joke. Actually happened today.
LOL. Besides being an idiotic answer, the vast majority of SS payments are done electronically.