Senator Bernie Sanders warns that he’ll oppose one change to Social Security that’s under discussion as part of the fiscal cliff talks. Sanders says some want to shift the way the annual cost of living is adjusted for people who receive Social Security benefits.
Senator Bernie Sanders says one of his top priorities in Washington is to fight efforts to recalibrate how Social
Security and veterans’ benefits are calculated. He says deficit
hawks want to switch to a system that would limit benefits.
Advocates
for disabled Vermonters are decrying what they say are problems with a newly
instituted system of electronic payments for Social Security beneficiaries. They’ve been alerted this
week to a spate of problems with people being switched to debit card payments
without adequate notification.
Social
Security recipients won’t be getting a one-time $250 payment this year. That’s
because a U.S. Senate vote yesterday fell 7 votes short of the 60 needed to
overcome a Republican filibuster.
One of Senator Bernie Sanders’ top priorities for next week’s lame duck Congressional session
is to pass a bill that would send all Social Security recipients a one-time emergency check for
$250.
Senator Bernie Sanders is hailing President Barack Obama’s call for Congress to approve $250 payments to more than 50 million seniors to make up for no increase in Social Security next year.