On Disability? I am. Meanwhile, we highlighted last month the opportunity for Congress to make a modest temporary fix to ensure that the Social Security disability trust fund can pay full benefits to its recipients through 2016 and beyond. It would involve Congress allowing funds to move between the Social Security old-age retirement fund and the disability fund, which Congress has allowed 11 times since the late 1960s. Without such a transfer, people on disability insurance would start seeing sharp cuts in their benefit checks starting sometime next year. Nonetheless, in an apparent response to opposition of groups such as the Heritage Foundation, House Republicans added a sentence to their operating rules that would make it harder for them to authorize such a transfer between the funds. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in a statement put his finger directly on what’s behind this move: “Republicans want to set the stage to cut benefits for seniors and disabled Americans.” Thank you, Karen Benjamin Rhinevault.
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 00:54:06 +0000