Project 2025 cuts Social Security: Are you on the chopping block? Check this map.
Should the Social Security Retirement Age Be Raised? Yes. — Heritage Foundation
You gotta hand it to the clever folks at the Heritage Foundation! How do you make it even harder for seniors struggling with their healthcare and expenses? Raise the retirement age! Make them wait longer!
How many people in your county are over 65? How many do not have health insurance? How many live in poverty? Many of them will be hurt by Trump’s Project 2025. Check this map to see who’s on the chopping block.
‘Clever’ Heritage Fund people working hard to cut your benefits
“Rachel Greszler, a Project 2025 contributor and Heritage Foundation employee, has written extensively about the need to raise the Social Security retirement age to at least 70. sample of her proposals HERE.
Gradually shift to a universal benefit based on years of work instead of total earnings. Republicans want everyone working from as young as possible until we die. If a benefit is based on “years of work,” and Republicans can effectively deem years as “independent contractors” not “years of work,” they can eliminate Social Security for millions of Americans. See how the Republican Project 2025 pushes to classify most employees as independent contractors.
“Years of work” also gives employers the ability to terminate employees before they reach the required number of “years of work,” thus voiding eligibility for Social Security unless the terminated employee finds another qualifying job. They have many options to move goalposts on what would be a qualifying job.” — Andra Watkins
Raise the retirement age
Republicans already proposed raising the Social Security retirement age to 70 earlier this year. Newsweek
From there, they would index it to a person’s life expectancy. Instead of giving everyone the same retirement age, participants could be required to endure life-insurance-level exams to determine life expectancy, with a likely reduction in benefits for “riskier” participants. This is what Greszler means by “using more accurate statistics to adjust benefits.” — Andra Watkins
How Project 2025 impacts your health?
“Are you over 65 and on Medicare? Or LGBTQIA+, or living with HIV? Or a woman seeking reproductive health services? Getting insurance from Obamacare – the Affordable Care Act? Or someone who’s lost a job or isn’t working, or is getting federal benefits such as Medicare, Medicaid, or SNAP food stamps? If you are, Project 2025 will negatively – and possibly drastically – impact your health care access. But it also impacts all Americans – and a global public – because it calls for radical policy changes to impose a conservative Christian agenda on all sectors of the federal government.
In a nutshell, Project 2025 proposes to drastically cut the US health safety net for the poorest and most vulnerable Americans, cutting benefits programs like those listed above, while overhauling the key federal health departments and scientific agencies that conservatives view as run by “woke” officials. Where possible, Project 2025 favors outsourcing health programs to the private sector including Christian groups and cutting Obamacare to expand private insurance.” — Stop The Coup 2025
TakeAway: You deserves better. Vote for Kamala Harris, Tim Walz and Democrats to protect your Social Security.
Deepak
DemLabs
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