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StarzGuy

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58. This is SOOOOO true

Fri Sep 13, 2019, 01:35 PM

Sep 2019

I am exhibit number 1. I've been on SSDI ever since I became too sick to work. Now, it has been 10 years and I have been in financial hell ever since. Fortunately, I have enough work credits to earn a fair social security disability insurance award along with a small pension. Still, the amount I receive is insufficient to even cover my basic needs. I lost my home when I got sick and most likely will never be in a position to own another home due to the lack of income sufficient enough to qualify. Never mind just how much the sale prices of homes have skyrocketed since I owned my home.

I rely on help from a friend and the local food bank to help with my expenses. But it still isn't anywhere close to what I need. My bank account is consistently overdrawn and I don't seem able to stop those overdrawn charges at $35 a pop.

So, Miss Warren is absolutely correct. Those of us who rely on our social security payments deserve better and a healthy increase is the order of the day. I have no illusions however as I seriously doubt that such a bill will see the light of day in Congress. Gee, I just cant wait for the 1.6% increase in my SSDI next January.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided

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Today's Social Security benefits are too small to give retirees financial stability [View all] bluewater Sep 2019 OP

Elizabeth Warren is so right CountAllVotes Sep 2019 #1

Thank goodness she has someone Demobrat Sep 2019 #19

So many do not have anyone CountAllVotes Sep 2019 #34

Exactly! warmfeet Sep 2019 #40

A little history DownriverDem Sep 2019 #53

Women have been penalized by this system if they stayed home to care for family.. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #61

+1000 bluewater Sep 2019 #62

K&R!!! Millions suffer in the US! n/t RKP5637 Sep 2019 #2

Half the country is doing very well HeartlandProgressive Sep 2019 #3

Half? FiveGoodMen Sep 2019 #9

+1 ReformedGOPer Sep 2019 #37

It's very difficult gelsdorf Sep 2019 #4

Two of the last 3 COLAs were gone to rent increases before I got them... Wounded Bear Sep 2019 #11

The increase in Medicare supplemental insurance premiums.... SergeStorms Sep 2019 #21

Yup, totally burns my ass that the supplemental, which only covers 20%, costs so incredibly more dhol82 Sep 2019 #28

Retirement's rough. ChazInAz Sep 2019 #48

Ain't it the truth. Desert Dem Sep 2019 #5

Go Warren! zentrum Sep 2019 #6

Has there ever been a time someone could love on Social Security alone? The Mouth Sep 2019 #7

Depends on how much you made when working... Wounded Bear Sep 2019 #12

Damn The Mouth Sep 2019 #13

That's from decades of very bad policy that intentionally redistributed wealth upward. Kurt V. Sep 2019 #29

Hey, those jets and private islands ain't gonna pay for themselves The Mouth Sep 2019 #54

Tell us something we don't know considering there's been an SS impending crisis elocs Sep 2019 #8

Vote for Democratic candidates at all levels for a start rurallib Sep 2019 #15

I've voted for Democrats in every election & at every level for 47 years now. elocs Sep 2019 #16

I always heard that if wishes were horses Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #32

There are many You Tube video's showing people how they live in their car on 850 per month Oppaloopa Sep 2019 #10

I know, I watch them and though some do it just for the mobility Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #33

The GOPigs will never stop trying to cut benefits. LudwigPastorius Sep 2019 #14

We'd all love an increase snowybirdie Sep 2019 #17

"Never intended" is never a reason to stop evolving as a society. stopbush Sep 2019 #22

The three legged stool. ChiTownDenny Sep 2019 #27

And with negative interest rates on the horizon Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #35

The problem is people lived longer TheRealNorth Sep 2019 #39

She is Spot on...................... turbinetree Sep 2019 #18

ELIMINATE the Gross Earned Income Cap...... ProudMNDemocrat Sep 2019 #20

Yep. 95% of Americans pay into SS on 100% of their income. stopbush Sep 2019 #23

The intent of social security needs to be redefined. AJT Sep 2019 #24

Not to mention the disability benefits especially for those disabled cstanleytech Sep 2019 #25

Social Security was always intended to be one leg of a three-legged stool. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #26

And good luck with your 401k if the market crashes around the time of your retirement. dhol82 Sep 2019 #30

Yep. NT. warmfeet Sep 2019 #41

And if you retire into a rising market, you need to understand PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #49

And the intent of Workmen's Compensation was to pay Farmer-Rick Sep 2019 #43

One thing to fix is Medicare taking every penny of every raise Amimnoch Sep 2019 #31

I'm figuring Social Security should be twice what it is. LiberalFighter Sep 2019 #36

Social Security has essentially a ten year vesting. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #50

this woman needs to be the next president.... throwthe_shoe Sep 2019 #38

I could not agree more. warmfeet Sep 2019 #42

im on ssi. when congress gave us a raise last year , this year ss goes to me you make too much AllaN01Bear Sep 2019 #44

Why do people support trump and the GOP then duforsure Sep 2019 #45

Why? Blue_true Sep 2019 #47

Like everything else that is financial. Blue_true Sep 2019 #46

I don't know about everyone else. But I'm surviving. MySideOfTown Sep 2019 #51

SSI is also too small. ColesCountyDem Sep 2019 #52

As a retiree I'm more worried about my SS getting smaller than it is now elocs Sep 2019 #55

My mom and dad only get about $5300 a month in SS madville Sep 2019 #56

5300? Wow, that's more than the 3100 my brother and his wife bring home a month cstanleytech Sep 2019 #57

Mom owned a bookkeeping business, Dad was a salesman madville Sep 2019 #70

Only? Boomer Sep 2019 #59

! CountAllVotes Sep 2019 #67

It's about what I gross in my current job madville Sep 2019 #69

Only? What sort of medical coverage do they have? SMC22307 Sep 2019 #65

Yeah madville Sep 2019 #68

$5300/mo.! CountAllVotes Sep 2019 #66

I live on $1194 a month and I'm doing fine Kaleva Sep 2019 #71

This is SOOOOO true StarzGuy Sep 2019 #58

and now McConnell plans to cut "benefits" and cut back Medicare lab testing. Grasswire2 Sep 2019 #60

Yes they are, but social security was Progressive dog Sep 2019 #63

This, along with Medicare at 55, are winning issues. SMC22307 Sep 2019 #64