While unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) claim to be ridding Social Security of waste and corruption, senior citizens are losing their Social Security payments.
The Seattle Times reports 82-year-old Leonard “Ned” Johnson lost his Social Security payments in February when his wife received a notification from their bank that the Social Security Administration requested a return for benefits paid out after the supposed death of her husband. $5,201 was pulled from their account.
KFOR notes that 66-year-old James McCaffrey, a retiree living in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, lost his benefits in March:
After more than two and a half hours on hold with Social Security, he finally got a callback. “They confirmed that my account was suspended,” McCaffrey said. He says Social Security never sent him any sort of notice this was happening, so he can’t be certain the exact day his benefits were canceled.
But he knows it must have been sometime between the day he received his February Social Security check early in the month, and Feb. 27, the date written on the bill he received from Medicare.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) described a potential GOP “attack plan” for Social Security on Twitter/X.
Here’s how I think the Social Security attack plan works: 🧵
