SS: $24,000 on average.
Illegal Aliens today: $65,000.
The country is overloaded with illegals and they will eat up every last dime.
We can’t take care of our own and all the invaders. Displacing Americans from their homes is next.
America is a dead man walking.
“The 2024 COLA could be around 3.1%,”
Gotta have enough $$ to give minority groups for the ‘reparations’
So now it’s FJB pushing Grandma over the cliff from her wheelchair? Can that campaign video be redone with FJB doing the pushing?
Well, the illegals need it don’t you know.
Screw legitimate American citizens, we need to give hundreds of billions more in foreign aid, to Ukraine on whatever the latest war adventure the professional career lawyer politicians come up with.
My home owners insurance as tripled in past three years, my property taxes has almost doubled, car insurance has doubled. Welcome to FLORIDA! and I have had to cut way back on items that I once thought was simple.
They’re not broke.What they should do is distribute COLA dollar for dollar equally among the whole instead of a percentage of what you receive.
Much like the scamdemic, inflation is over and no longer a problem. Right? Hello?! Bueller?
When you steal the vote, does it matter what the seniors vote for anymore ?
I expect that the demise of Title 42 is going to bring a massive increase in the number Social Security and Medicare recipients. Those “asylum seekers” have found their asylum and are coming here for more than “asylum”. It’s all about the money.
SS payment amounts seem to be the only place the federal government shows restraint.
most of the gain will probably go to Medicare premium.
COLA never amounted to much to begin with, and it never matched the actual rate of inflation. And when they raise the cost of Medicare, it usually wipes out the COLA anyway.
But it’s a “trust fund”, doncha know. It’s also compulsory. But don’t you dare try to fix it or phase it out. No private business would get away with following the Social Security “business model”.
It’s all manipulated ever since Bill Clinton changed the formula for computing COLA back in the early 1990’s.
The decrepit old fool needs the money for the “Migrants” he’s bringing in, and for Ukraine.
Old Americans have been written off, and are expected to slink away and die.
I guess the democrats believe that all seniors are as mentally defective as Brand and will be just fine being screwed over while illegals are given more benefits than their children and grandchildren while generations of Americans to come are saddled with backbreaking debt.