Posted on 03/31/2025 4:33:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
North Liberty, Iowa — At the weekly senior lunch social in North Liberty, Iowa, chicken was on the menu, but Social Security was top of mind.
Iowa, like the U.S., is aging. One in four people in the state is age 60 and older, according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services. Uncertainty in Washington means anxiety here.
Anne Bacon tells CBS News the issue gives her "daymares."
Bacon relies on the $1,600 a month she receives from Social Security to pay for the 24-hour care of her brother, Rick Clark, who has dementia.
"Every day I'm worried that somehow he'll lose his care," Bacon said.
When a Social Security check didn't arrive in January, Bacon called the agency and ended up on hold for more than six hours on two separate calls. When she finally got someone on the phone, the problem was resolved in minutes.
The average wait time for Social Security calls has doubled in the last six months to 104 minutes.
John Hale worked for Social Security for 25 years. He and his wife Terri are now advocates for older and disabled Iowans through the Hale Group.
"It's about retirement benefits," Hale said. "It's about survivors' benefits, and about payments to people with disabilities."
President Trump has insisted that he is not touching Social Security, which has more than 70 million recipients. But he is touching jobs within the agency. Last month, the agency announced plans to cut about 7,000 employees, or about 12% of its workforce.
The agency has also been hit by a bevy of changes. The Social Security Administration announced earlier this month that it would require in-person identity checks for new and existing beneficiaries, with some limited exemptions.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Also this month, the SSA said that recipients would no longer be able to change direct deposit and other banking information with the agency by phone, claiming that it could lead to fraud. Recipients will instead be required to use the SSA's online platform or visit a local SSA office.
Maybe CBS could TELL THE TRUTH rather than spreading anti-Trump fear porn.
The media reports that the media has reported that Trump will take away everyone’s social security check. And the media is now in a position to report that some people believed those previous media reports and are now living in fear. More news will be available as this story develops.
Who amongst us has the balls to say SSI is a Ponzi scheme? Reagan said unemployment insurance was a paid vacation-1976. I was unemployed then.
No, they’re not capable of telling the truth.
Hint folks: It doesn't take 56,000 employees to process your payments, and the 56,000 who have been there for so long have done a horrible job of protecting your payments from being stolen, or of preventing illegals and other fraud schemes from taking your money. Pres Trump wants to protect your payments, not reduce them... and so you have to wonder why anyone would lie to you and tell you that he is going to reduce those payments.
There may be a jab for that.
It isn’t Trump. It is MSM and the dummocrats lying to seniors to scare them.
It has been said over and over that nobody is taking away their SS or medicare. Trump is trying to keep it from going belly up in the near future.
It’s more like those illegally receiving SS payments who are alarmed. They are likely Demonicrat voters as well.
But lies are all one expects from SeeBS.
Donald Trump simply HAS, to address the people on a live broadcast and explain the fraud in that system.
What? Over 2 million illegals that tapped into it?
He simply needs to explain that if fraud isnt cleared out, that social security will cease to exist.
The checks showed up in the account this month, so far so good.
I nearly got into a mess with a coworker who KNOWS for SURE that her SS$ is going to be taken away. She works part time and gets her monthly SS. I told her he’s NOT taking it away. She said “but it was reported that he is”. I said the reporters are mistaken. She took my head off. I bit my tongue and went back to work. She hates me cause I refused the vax and was a day away from getting fired before they gave a few waivers. Tense times at work.
It’s impossible to talk with some TDS people.
The average wait time for Social Security calls has doubled in the last six months to 104 minutes
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What percentage of the social security call center employees were working from home over the past 6 months? (4 brandon/ 2 MAGA btw)
If I was SCAMMING Social Security, I’d be worried too.
Only “alarmed” seniors are those dumb, dyslexic, or deranged enough to watch and believe the communist-controlled MSM...
CBSs false news reporting has many seniors alarmed!
“When a Social Security check didn’t arrive in January, Bacon called the agency and ended up on hold for more than six hours on two separate calls. When she finally got someone on the phone, the problem was resolved in minutes.”
WHEN IN JANUARY?
Trump became President on the 21st.
what a crap article is that ...
Like you can just call a bank and change deposit accounts by phone?
The media and leftists are spinning up seniors with disinfo
Its evil
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