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Statement on President Obama's Budget Including Social Security Cuts
    04/05

 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, April 5, 2013

 

Statement on President Obama's Budget Including Social Security Cuts

 
(Washington, DC) — It has been reported by the New York Times and others that the president's budget will definitely include the chained CPI benefit cut to Social Security and other Medicare benefit cuts. The following are statements from the founding co-directors of Social Security Works and the co-chairs of the Strengthen Social Security Campaign:

Social Security is too important to the economic security of the American people to be used as a bargaining chip. The president's own Secretary of the Treasury and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget has written about the budget, 'The problem is not Social Security; the problem is the mismatch between outlays and revenues in the rest of the budget.'  Applying the so-called chained CPI to Social Security cuts the benefits of every single Social Security beneficiary, now and in the future.  The very groups who worked the hardest and voted in the highest percentages to re-elect the president -- working families, women, people of color, young Americans -- will be the ones hurt the most by the cuts the president is reportedly including in his budget.
   

 
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Reps. DeLauro (CT), Conyers (MI), Deutch (FL), and Cicilline (RI), to Rollout New Report for Incoming Social Security Commissioner
    05/14

 Media Advisory For:

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

 

Contact: Lacy Crawford, SSW – 

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Reps. DeLauro (CT), Conyers (MI), Deutch (FL), and Cicilline (RI), to Rollout New Report for Incoming Social Security Commissioner

(Washington, DC) -- Please join Rep. DeLauro (D-CT), Conyers (MI), Deutch (D-FL), and Cicilline (D-RI) along with the Strengthen Social Security Coalition, the National Women’s Law Center and the National Seniors Citizens Law Center this Wednesday, May 15 at 12:30pm for the release of the Transition Report For The New Commissioner of Social Security.

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Social Security News, Monday 5-13-13
    05/13

 

SSW/SSSC mention

 

Remapping Debate (NY)

Can those aged 45 to 64 be saved from misery in retirement? How?

5-10-13

Eric Kingson, a professor of social work and public administration at Syracuse University and founding co-director of Social Security Works, a group that advocates for the protection of the Social Security system, said a retiree with income below 200 percent of the poverty line who faces significant health care costs is often forced to compromise between her health care and other necessities, such as clothing. For some, he said, health care loses out and “people cut their medicine.”

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Social Security News, Friday 5-10-13
    05/10

 

 SSW/SSSC mention

Politico (DC)

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BYRON TAU & ANNA PALMER

5-10-13

PROGRESSIVES ORGANIZE AGAINST BENEFIT CHANGES: A group of progressives rallied this week against benefit cuts and changes at a Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid summit. "Right now, there are people who want to cut benefits for seniors who live on $1,100 a month, but at the same time they support maintaining subsidies for big agricultural companies — that's wrong," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said. Warren was joined by Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Jack Reed (D-R.I.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), David Cicilline (D-R.I.) and Ted Deutch (D-Fla.), who all spoke.

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