will trump defund soc sec ? if yes, what will happen to my retirement soc sec check ?
Wow... Progressive Marxist Socialist/DSA Democrat Leftists can really scare the American voter.... Social Security will not end under DJT.... Republicans ill Not throw grandma over the cliff as they claimed Ryan would do.... Typical scare tactics.
Activists and Congressional Democrats encouraged the public to voice their opposition to the proposals, which were published in November 2019.
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The Social Security Administration distributes disability benefits in two principle
ways: Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), which typically provides benefits to people based on their previous Social Security tax contributions and history of work, and is paid out of the Social Security insurance fund; and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), which typically provides benefits to people based on their disability status and inability to work, and is paid out of general tax coffers.
In order to prevent potential abuse and waste in the system, the Social Security Administration conducts “continuing disability
reviews,” essentially investigating whether each recipient still has a disabling condition, and if so, which kind. Those reviews take place more or less frequently, depending on the nature of each individual’s disability, broken into three “medical diary categories,” as follows:
- Medical Improvement Expected: Review every six to 18 months. e.g. bone fractures, kidney disease (alleviated by kidney transplant), low birth weight.
- Medical Improvement Possible: Review every three years. Non-permanent impairments. e.g. Schizophrenia, chronic ulcerative colitis, epilepsy.
- Medical Improvement Not Expected: Review every five to seven years. e.g. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig’s disease), Parkinson’s disease, leg amputation at the hip.
In November, the Social Security Administration published its
proposals to make several changes to the review system. The most significant proposal was to add a fourth medical diary category, “Medical Improvement Likely.” Recipients placed in that category would undergo a review every two years.
According to a document accompanying the proposals, the decision to introduce the fourth category was made, in part, because the administration saw a pattern whereby some in the “Medical Improvement Expected” category were being prematurely subjected to re-evaluation, after six-18 months, before a medical improvement had the chance to take hold, and some in the “Medical Improvement Possible” category had successfully treated their impairment comfortably within the three-year review interval.
The introduction of the new category would therefore mean the bureaucratic burden on some recipients would actually be lessened, since they would be subject to review less frequently, though clearly it would also mean others would be subject to more frequent reviews. On the whole, the administration has estimated that, between 2020 and 2029, the new category would tend towards requiring more frequent reviews for those currently in the “Medical Improvement Possible” category, rather than less frequent reviews for those currently in the “Medical Improvement Expected” category:
