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Note to GenXers with elderly parents. Do you manage their finances and Social Security account? If so, stay up to date with any forms you might need when they pass away. My dad passed in Feb and they locked his online SSA account within days. Now I have to file his taxes but have no SSA statement and can’t access it. Been on hold for two hours now.

EDIT: Took 3.5 hours for a 5 minute phone call. And I have to do it again next year. #socialsecurity #ssa #parents #caregiver #genx

Not that I’m worried, but this is the first time in 4+ years that my son and I have not received a bank notice of our Social Security payments received by our credit union as Pending.
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It’s only the mortgage and utilities that need to be paid.
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#SocialSecurity #DOGE

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#DOGE also announced drastic cuts at depts that provide critical #SocialServices including #VeteransAffairs [#VA], which administers #healthcare for #veterans, & the #SocialSecurity Administration, which sends out checks to #retired, #disabled & #widowed Americans [money Americans put into the #SSA out of their own paychecks].

#OPM …has laid off >200 of its own employees & allowed >400 to *opt in* to *voluntary* exit programs since #Trump took office…

The SSA & #DOGE are GASLIGHTING AMERICANS.

They're telling millions of beneficiaries that reports they were closing SSA field offices were fake news. These closures were PUBLICLY ANNOUNCED &🚨LEASES WERE CXL.

In Campbellsville, KY -the owner of a 12,750-sq-foot office bldg leased to the SSA for a field office was informed by the GSA -lease was being term.

Similar incidents played out across the country.

#Sabotage #SocialSecurity #Fascism #Trump #Musk #Resist #USPol

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Popular Information · How the Social Security Administration and DOGE are gaslighting AmericansBy Judd Legum

One of my migraine patients has worked at a #SocialSecurity field office for 30 years.

Lately, her headaches have worsened—thanks to the chaos unleashed by #Musk, #DOGE, and Trump-era dysfunction.

She’s scared her office will close. Scared for her job. Scared people won’t get the help they need. And she feels constantly gaslit by this administration.

Even longtime #Trump voters in rural America are feeling betrayed. They’re in the crosshairs now.

Wonder if they’r starting to regret that vote?

#popularinformation @juddlegum
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#USpolitics #Florida #6thDistrict #JoshWeil

Hey Floridians, will you allow $$ to heyjack your democracy ?
#VotingIsYourRight #VotingIsYourMight
No more aid for the weaker in your community ?
No more #MedicAid or #SocialSecurity
[Or talking $ : Will YOU pay for your families elderly's medicine ?]
Do this together.

"Randy Fine: Unhinged, Un-American" [0:30 min]
by Josh Weil [Mar 27, 2025}
longer video on the topic:
-> This Florida Vote Could Flip the House Before Midterms <- [19:38 min] by Meidas Touch
-> youtube.com/shorts/yRsFIogwLTY <-

youtube.com/watch?v=RpwQdfsUxp

#USbeware #FascistsAreHere
#TimeToResist #FightOligarchy

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@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @georgetakei #Evolution might be teaching but I doubt mankind is learning - at least not permanently... Otherwise we would have a capable and dedicated public servant in the #WhiteHouse and the insurrectionist and fraudster in #Jail. Let's see what the #MAGAts are saying once their #SocialSecurity cheques stop coming...
Not holding my breath, though. Apparently still 45% of voters are approving of the #OrangeFelon's job performance... Even with markets in free fall, looming recession, and talking about war with Denmark, Panama, and Canada these fuckwits give him higher rating than Biden at the same time in his presidency.
#TheUnAmericanVotersDidThis
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