Should we keep seniors from getting their Social Security?

Musk and DOGE are currently cutting the IT systems and staff that ensure checks go out on time.

Here is Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce, explaining that his mother-in-law wouldn’t complain if she didn’t get her check one month – possibly because her son-in-law is a billionaire.

Quoting from a recent article in Axios:

• With the agency’s most recent cuts to phone services, experts say field offices could flood with people, who’ll see delays in getting service or may not be able to access benefits at all.
• “The trade-off isn’t just efficiency — it’s life or death,” the former Digital Service worker said. “Many rely on these benefits for food, shelter and health care. If the system is too strict and prevents legitimate access, people can literally die.”

And Social Security is rushing service cuts at the request of the White House, Axios reports: “These changes will strain the already struggling Social Security system and could even deprive some people of benefits entirely, according to current and former employees and advocates for retirees.”

From the Washington Post: Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down. Quoting from the article:

• The Social Security Administration website crashed four times in 10 days this month, blocking millions of retirees and disabled Americans from logging in to their online accounts because the servers were overloaded.
• In the field, office managers have resorted to answering phones at the front desk as receptionists because so many employees have been pushed out.
• And the phones keep ringing. And ringing.”

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