My 87 year old Aunt taught 1st Grade in Chicago for 30 years after her husband was killed, and she had to raise my “baby” cousin entirely with her own money.
All her income and all her health benefits come from that program.
No person who has an ounce of compassion wishes this on anybody, but the unions and politicians have spent the pot and there is nothing left.
People, like your aunt, will suffer for being led by fools. It’s better, while you can, to help her downsize when she can make a choice to do so rather than in haste after it is announced that there is no money.