Posted on 03/15/2025 4:23:07 PM PDT by Libloather
In recent days, the Trump administration has announced two high-profile and controversial policy changes it says are meant to combat waste and fraud in Social Security.
First, the agency said it would resume garnishing entire benefit checks from Americans who receive overpayments, undoing a reform that had capped clawbacks at a smaller amount. Social Security officials claim the change will help the government recover an additional $7 billion over 10 years.
Later, the agency announced that enrollees would no longer be allowed to change their direct deposit information over the phone but would instead be required to use an online process with two-factor authentication or visit a Social Security office in person. The measure is meant to prevent some types of fraud.
Both decisions have been met with criticism. Former officials and outside experts worry the new clawback policy will punish poorer beneficiaries who can’t afford to have their full checks taken away, while the additional security measures around bank account information will unnecessarily burden many seniors who lack computer skills.
Here’s what you need to know.
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THAT IS MORE CORRECT THAN YOU CAN KNOW
I actually live within 4 miles of people NOT even ON THE GRID.
I am still driving a car I bought in August 1981
IF she had died NOV 1, they would NOT have taken that $$$ back
I recall they were going to phase out landlines by this year; is that still the case?
I have written checks since 1958 to pay bills.
Still do so. NO BIG DEAL.
Have paper bank statements & have records that last-—
IF IRS gives you grief over something-—the banks DO NOT have those records easily available back past certain time periods.
SOME BANKS ALSO CHARGE A FEE FOR EVERY TRANSACTION WHERE YOU PAY BILL ELECTRONICALLY-—EVERY MONTH FOR UTILITIES, FOR EXAMPLE.
I WANT TO SEE MY BILL & PAY IT MYSELF...
AGREE TOTALLY
I’m sure there will be some instances of this...for the over 80 crowd who dont have any family.
It will be a very small number.
And nothing is ever going to serve 100 percent of the people or be 100 percent perfect.
That’s what dems pretend to strive for.
I have 10 mph speed limits in some areas where I live now.
Of course I live in a communist city.
They just enjoy telling people what to do.
How many lives are being saved going from even 20 mph to 10
?
Is it worth the inconvenience of moving like a turtle for so many?
Wouldn’t 0 mph be safest?
Life’s not perfecdt...and gets a lot worse when the powers that be pretend to try to make it perfect.
“I recall they were going to phase out landlines by this year; is that still the case?”
They forced me to get a landline replacement earlier this year. It’s some kind of wireless box you can plug your old cordless phone system into. It’s supposed to be the same as the landline except wireless. It has battery backup for power outages.
The monthly charge is about one third what it was...so far.
I agree but that is just how it is these days. With all the fraud going on there has to be safeguards in place. Did you know that nobody goes to the unemployment office anymore? It is all done online or the occasional phone call. There is no such thing as an unemployment line, at least not in this state.
My Mom is 97. She wouldn’t know how to turn on a computer. That is what sons and daughter and social workers are for.
What if someone is in a rural area with no wireless coverage?
There are areas in the mountains with no signal.
Did you try id.me? It got me in when my old sign in did not work.
It is perhaps better to pay online as your records are pretty much indestructible at that point, backed up in the cloud in multiple places with some redundancy in case there is a certain point of failure. With paper records, your house could alway burn down and you lose it all forever.
Yes, a meteor or nuclear war could destroy the earth at some point and render cloud-based records useless but then again, not having access to your records would be the least of your problems!
My wife. I am her IT server. She simply will not learn.
Not really a source to be trusted or follow.
they may have some functional info that appears correct, but everything is suspect.
Wow no I didn’t know that. What aggravates me at the moment is my employer normally sends my w-2s in the mail for the last 20 years, this year I didn’t receive them so I go to my company’s website online and message HR and they advised me to download them electronically I keep getting the runaround they want me to download this and open that file and I’m having so much trouble because it’s not even recognizing my email address. Starting to get very upset. Aside from browsing online and my standard workload I am not tech savvy at all and I miss the old days especially when you would call a business and could talk to a live person.
“””I miss the old days especially when you would call a business and could talk to a live person”””
Those were the days. I’m afraid they are gone forever.
I reported my husband’s death the same day. So did the funeral home. It’s been almost a month and his check is still in the bank. They said they had to take it back since it was deposited the day after he passed. I’m tired or balancing the balance around it.
Except that is still other people’s money.
If your bank screwed up and deposited an extra grand into your account by mistake, do you think you should be allowed to keep it?
We’re talking other people’s money here.
Whether it’s your bank or the government screwing up.
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