This information below comes directly from the Arc of the United States. The new Congress is now stealthily pushing to reduce Social Security Disability Insurance benefits by potentially 20%!!! Taking aim at the most vulnerable, most under employed sector of the US population. Is that fair? Here is the information from the Arc:<\/p>\n
The Arc Action Alert: SSDI Under Attack Today: Tell Your Member of Congress to Vote No on House Rules<\/p>\n
On the first day of the new Congress, proponents of cutting Social Security have hidden major disability program changes in an unrelated, routine package<\/strong> that sets the rules for the U.S. House of Representatives.\u00a0 These changes to the Social Security disability program have not been considered in hearings or open to input from constituents.<\/p>\n As Members of Congress are organizing for the new session, the rules governing debate and procedure in the House must be approved.\u00a0 Tucked in this package is a provision that takes off the table a routine shift in Social Security revenues needed to prevent a 20% cut in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits in 2016.<\/p>\n This vote is happening this evening \u2013 call your Member of Congress now to support SSDI.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2016 Social Security\u2019s disability fund will face a long-expected shortfall due to demographic trends such as the nation\u2019s aging population.\u00a0 Since Social Security was enacted, Congress has “reallocated” payroll tax revenues between the retirement and disability trust funds \u2013 about equally in both directions \u2013 some 11 times, on a bipartisan basis, to account for such demographic shifts.<\/p>\n The House rules package would hold SSDI hostage by putting up roadblocks to another routine, common-sense shift in Social Security revenues.\u00a0 Unless Congress acts to temporarily increase dollars going into the disability fund, in 2016 SSDI beneficiaries will face a 20% benefit cut.<\/p>\n Instead of having a meaningful debate about the future of Social Security and SSDI, House leadership is seeking to make major policy changes that will affect millions of people without hearings or input from their constituents, essentially in the dead of the night.<\/strong><\/p>\n Call your Member of the House of Representatives today and ask him\/her to protect SSDI and vote NO on the House rules.<\/p>\n The House rules package contains a harmful provision that could force cuts to Social Security, including Social Security Disability Insurance. This information below comes directly from the Arc of the United States. The new Congress is now stealthily pushing to reduce Social Security Disability Insurance benefits by potentially 20%!!! Taking aim at the most vulnerable, most under employed sector of the US population. Is that fair? Here is the information from the Arc: The Arc […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSTth-11U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susansenator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPeople with disabilities rely on this program for basic needs \u2013 any cuts will have a devastating effect on our\/their lives.
\nThis major policy is being done without hearings or input from your constituents, essentially in the dead of the night.
\nVote NO on the House rules package when it comes up for a vote today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"