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Trump & Musk Tried to Make it Harder for Parents to Register Newborns for Social Security

It started as a baffling and alarming decision. The Social Security Administration (SSA), under the influence of President Trump’s campaign to gut the federal government and Elon Musk’s DOGE team, announced the termination of Maine’s Enumeration at Birth (EAB) program. For 35 years, the EAB program had allowed parents to register their newborns for Social Security numbers right at the hospital. But suddenly, without warning, SSA moved to rescind this critical service, effectively forcing parents to register their children for Social Security with an SSA agent, at a time when Trump and Musk are closing SSA field offices and radically reducing the agency’s workforce.

NCPSSM2025-03-07T17:11:15-04:00March 7th, 2025|Categories: Max Richtman, Social Security, Social Security Administration (SSA), SSA field offices, Trump, Uncategorized|

Millionaires Are Done Paying Into Social Security for 2025

Millionaires stop paying into Social Security for the year on March 1st --- and billionaires already stopped contributing wages to the program in January. The rest of us continue paying into the system for the entire year. Is it fair that Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Charles Koch, and Tim Cook of Apple don’t have to contribute to Social Security for the rest of the year while most Americans do?

NCPSSM2025-03-06T15:14:00-04:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: Payroll Tax Cap, Rep. John Larson, Social Security|

What the Heck is Going on at the Social Security Administration?

In the short period of time that Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE have had their hooks in the Social Security Administration, there have been alarming changes at the agency. The most obvious – and most egregious – is Musk and DOGE’s access to the sensitive personal data of some 70 million Social Security beneficiaries, creating the potential for enormous abuse. This was the first line of attack in Musk’s bogus campaign to expose fraud at an agency where improper payments are less than 1% of total benefits paid.

NCPSSM2025-02-26T17:17:50-04:00February 26th, 2025|Categories: Social Insurance, Social Security, Social Security Administration (SSA), Trump|

The First Social Security Beneficiary Got Her Check 85 Years Ago

Ida Mae Fuller in 1940 The following article is reprinted from the Social Security Administration (SSA) website www.ssa.gov The

NCPSSM2025-04-11T13:51:27-04:00January 31st, 2025|Categories: EH Blog, Social Security, Social Security Administration (SSA)|

In Debate, Walz Reassures Seniors the Democratic Ticket Has Their Backs

The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare released this statement at the end of Tuesday's vice presidential debate::: Tim

NCPSSM2024-10-02T11:21:14-04:00October 1st, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Social Security Celebrates 89 Years of Keeping Seniors Financially Secure

Social Security turns 89 years old today. That’s nearly nine decades of providing baseline financial security to America’s retirees and their families --- and since 1956, to people with disabilities. Today, 67 million people --- or 1 in 5 U.S. residents --- receive Social Security benefits. And in all these years, Social Security has never missed a payment. Not once.

NCPSSM2024-08-14T11:39:48-04:00August 14th, 2024|Categories: seniors, Social Security|

Our Debate Takeaway: Trump’s Lies Undermine Seniors’ Earned Benefits

As seniors’ advocates, it is not our job to parse Joe Biden’s debate performance. It’s our job to tell Americans in straight talk who is telling the truth about Social Security and Medicare — and who will protect them as president. In last night’s debate, Donald Trump repeatedly spread disinformation about seniors’ earned benefits, while President Biden’s statements were consistent with the truth — and with his record in office of defending both programs.

NCPSSM2024-07-16T13:29:50-04:00June 28th, 2024|Categories: Election 2024, Medicare, Prescription Drug Prices, President Biden, Presidential Politics, Social Insurance, Social Security, Trump|

House Budget Cmte. Holds Hearing on Social Security Trustees Report

Ranking Committee Member Brendan Boyle (D-PA) Republicans and Democrats clearly had different takeaways from the recent Social Security Trustees

NCPSSM2024-06-18T12:36:44-04:00June 18th, 2024|Categories: Boost Social Security, Budget, Debt, Democrats, Politics, Republicans, Social Security, Social Security Trustees|

Dem/GOP Split on Social Security Apparent in Hill Hearing

The House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee held a hearing about the program's trustees' projection that the Social Security trust fund will become depleted in 2035, absent Congressional action. Even so, Social Security still could pay 83% of scheduled benefits at that time. No one wants Congressional inaction, but the hearing emphasized the difference in the two parties' approaches to the problem.

NCPSSM2024-06-11T14:19:17-04:00June 10th, 2024|Categories: Congress, Debt, Democrats, Rep. John Larson, Republicans, Social Security, Social Security Administration (SSA)|

House GOP Appropriators Announce 10% Cut in Labor/HHS Spending

House Republicans once again are showing where their true priorities lie. Appropriations committee chair Tom Cole (R-OK) announced the GOP’s topline numbers for fiscal year 2025 --- including at least a 10% cut in funding for Labor/HHS (Health & Human Services). That could mean agencies like the Social Security Administration (SSA) and Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would endure a huge spending cut, while Republican appropriators propose to boost military spending by 1%.