Ending Paper Checks for Social Security is a Huge Mistake
Right as the government is shutting down, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with a scheme to end paper Social Security checks. This will create chaos for 400,000 of the most vulnerable Americans who receive Social Security and SSI.
The people who get checks at this point lack the money to open bank accounts, maintain minimum balances, or pay bank fees. Many lack access to the internet.
Every past administration would have, prior to announcing such a significant change, spent months, if not years, discussing it both internally with those responsible for carrying out the change and externally with those affected by it. Instead, even Social Security’s own workforce has gotten very little information about how to manage the end of paper checks. The administration is essentially asking everyone to trust them.
By recklessly rushing to the end of paper checks without a firm solution in place, and enacting it just as the country is plunging into a government shutdown, this administration is deliberately sabotaging our Social Security system, setting the stage for it to fail on a grand scale, and likely to set the stage for privatization. This is another example of the Trump administration declaring war on seniors.
We’re fighting to restore the Social Security Administration, so that it can keep delivering every check in full and on time, as it has for the past 90 years. We're holding actions around the country to save our checks.
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