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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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Social Security News, Friday 5-24-13
    05/24

 

SSW/SSSC mention

 

Social Security Works (WA)

Social Security Works WA wins video contest sponsored by conservative billionaire

5-21-13

Peterson, a Wall Street billionaire who has spent $500 million in five years  in an attempt to generate public support for slashing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, sent a $500 check to Robby Stern, Chair of the Social Security Works Washington Coalition after Social Security Works – WA’s video Just Scrap the Cap won Peterson’s web video competition.

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Social Security News, Thursday 5-23-13

    05/23

 

Wall Street Journal (NAT)

Milliman Index Shows Healthcare Cost Rise Slowing

Vipal Monga

5-22-13

The cost of healthcare rose at the lowest rate on record, but the total cost for a typical family was still more than the cost of one year at an in-state public college, according to consulting and actuarial firm, Milliman. The government’s Affordable Care Act, however, didn’t seem to be having much of an effect on price increases, Milliman added.

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Social Security News, Wednesday 5-22-13
    05/22

 

SSW/SSSC mention

 

New America Media (NAT)

Better Language Interpretation Crucial for New Social Security Commissioner

Paul Nathanson

5-22-13

WASHINGTON, D.C.—As advocates for elders and people with disabilities anticipate President Obama’s choice of a new Social Security Commissioner, a group of us from the Strengthening Social Security Coalition presented our recommendations at a briefing on Capitol Hill last week calling for changes to improve the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) ability to serve large numbers of the program’s most vulnerable beneficiaries. That includes lower-income individuals, especially immigrants and those from ethnic groups.

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