My Social Security is pending.

[piddyprints]

Mine comes the 4th week of the month. It’s a few days early, so I didn’t actually expect to see it at all. Just checked for the fun of it. So, yeah, this is good.

But while I was relieved, I was also thinking, “WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THIS EVERY SINGLE FUCKING MONTH THAT THOSE CROOKS ARE IN POWER????”

[Meowmee]

1. This is horrific, so sorry you are going through this 😔🤗

[piddyprints]

5. From what I've read here lately,

I’m not the only one.

[Meowmee]

7. yes I hope you get it soon and everyone does, these are very scary times 😢

[kerry-is-my-prez]

50. I just got mine on the right date. I hope everyone else gets theirs.

I was so worried and now I’m worried if I’m going to get next months.

[Meowmee]

52. That is good, I hope that continues 😁

[womanofthehills]

47. You don't have to worry about it - people are scaring you

You really think Trump will take SS away from his millions of senior Republicans? No way - Trump wants people to love him - not hate him.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

49. He only cares about people he deems "worthy" and people who rely on SS aren't worthy to him.

I worked with someone quite wealthy and she actually said “why are they sending me these ridiculous checks? What a waste.”

[XanaDUer2]

2. Mine too

And I'm angry

[piddyprints]

8. Me too.

My husband is retiring this year and it’s stressful not knowing for sure if we’ll be paid from month to month.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

3. I've thought the same thing myself.

Being a retiree, I was looking forward to a restful and happy retirement for myself and my spouse. Now, I am wondering month to month about Soc. Security and my pension payment. I am progressing from being disheartened to being pissed off about this.

[dem4decades]

4. Relax, it's there. When it's not there is the time to fret.

[Silent Type]

6. SS checks will keep coming. trump is capable of anything, but he's not going to tick off 70 million

beneficiaries and give Democrats easy wins in midterms. And it’s really more than 70 million because trumpsters aren’t gonna like paying rent, etc., for mom and grandma.

[anciano]

9. Thank you....

that needed to be said to slow down these doomsday postings.

[Wifes husband]

33. These are not all doomsday postings

Some are, but we really are screwed

[stopdiggin]

36. the SS stuff is ( in very large part) chicken little dithering

without any foundation or real substance. The fact that a lot of older (and vulnerable) are being needlessly panicked - is both saddening and a disservice.

We would do well to stop this.

[Wifes husband]

40. The issue is

The potential Social Security cuts and elimination altogether concern is really valid.

Any administration that cuts the IRS at tax time and the Air Traffic Control at all (they have been understaffed since before saint Regan. That was the main reason for the strike), is capable of anything.

Some significant number of the people who are concerned about their Social Security payments voted for trump. About time they got concerned

[DENVERPOPS]

41. Its been four weeks

and I firmly believe that we A'INT SEEN NOTHING YET folks...............

All the chaos the Republicans are causing, is to create demonstrations and civil un-rest so Trump can utilize the Insurrection Act to mobilize the military for use against U.S. Civilians and begin Marshall Law throughout the U.S.

[Wifes husband]

44. I believe you are right

[DENVERPOPS]

48. The only question

is how deeply have the Trumphumpers infiltrated the military.....along with Secret Service, State's National Guards,
FBI, ATF, Border patrol, local and state police departments, etc etc etc....

I think we would all be appalled to know the numbers......

[Wifes husband]

53. I am afraid we are going to find out

[slightlv]

16. I appreciate what you're saying...

but it's still a worry. Mine's due in on the 14th of each month. I get a notice 3-5 days earlier that it's "pending"... what they tells me is the bank is holding onto my money until the last possible moment for that puny little bit of interest. 'Course, if you count all of this is happening to, it doesn't end up being such a puny amount! But I tell you, until that check is actually deposited in my account and active to draw on, I don't trust it.

You may be right about trump. I think he's realizing the Heritage and other main R's have gotten him already boxed into corners with their grandiose 2025 plans. But musk is doing this... and I wouldn't put it past him to do something like kick off whole groups of SS recipients. In fact, I'm looking for him to do just that to us women at some point. My only hope is that we've gotten him out of government by then... and maybe even shipped back to SA, from whence he came. God, can you imagine being his parents? Are they as arrogant and cruel as he is? He sure had to learn it from someplace. But I know my Mom and Dad would be totally ashamed if I even acted a little like he struts around acting, let alone what he's doing to hurt people.

No one thought it would ever be possible to fire civil servants en masse like musk does. Like I said, trump may back down a little, but not musk. He truly is Hitler 2.0. Or... as I like to say... he and trump are Gog and Magog.

[DENVERPOPS]

22. Trump is trying to satisfy three masters

2025.......Musk........Putin

[slightlv]

24. And I swear he thinks he can take all his money with him when he dies.

Wonder if he'll have a pyramid built in which to put himself and all those riches for all eternity. I wouldn't put it pass his megalomania.

[Wifes husband]

42. Never have understood it.

I understand acquiring enough money to live comfortably. Two or three times that if you want. But the amount some of these people accumulate is insane.

I have read that it would take $30 billion a year to stop world hunger. I don't know if that is true, but spending your money on that would make more sense than buying a yacht the size of a ww2 escort destroyer.

[slightlv]

58. One of the most joyous moments in my life

was when hubby and I both were working on gov't contracts and he actually had good money coming in... and I was saving most of it. During this time, the plays CATS and The Lion King came to one of the theaters. Not only was I able to go and take in two plays I really loved... but I was able to buy my Mom and my sister tickets so we could make it a girl's night out and really enjoy ourselves. To me, that's what excess money is for. It's not the "things" you can buy, but the experiences it allows you to share with others.

I've never wanted a hell of a lot of money. All I want is enough to meet my monthly financial obligations (including paying off credit cards each month when they come in), some set aside for unexpected medical and vet bills, a little to donate to the local animal rescue here in town, and a little to just have "fun" with. I'm a woman of small expectations and desires... and it takes very little to make me happy. I'm so far away from these multi-billionaires that there's no way to bridge the gap in understanding.

[DENVERPOPS]

43. The Repubs are already

trying to have his face added to Mt. Rushmore.............

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

54. If that happaned

I find myself imagining the other four faces coming to life and spitting at him in disgust.

[slightlv]

59. Or someone blowing up the whole mountain!

[Septua]

26. I'm cautiously optimistic about the SS checks BUT...

..I don't trust that lying, wannabe-tyrant, sonofabitch from one statement to the next. If the link is correct, he said he wouldn't touch Medicaid but the House maga crowd is working on a bill to cut $880 billion.

I'm trying to stay optimistic about the situation but every day that comes and goes with the BS from him and Musk, isn't encouraging.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/upshot/trump-medicaid-tax-cuts.html

Mr. Trump said Tuesday night on Fox News that he wouldn’t make cuts to Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program that mostly covers poor Americans. But making substantial cuts to Medicaid is a key part of congressional Republicans’ plan to extend the tax cuts.

Mike Johnson, the House Speaker, has been hard at work on a major bill that can balance various priorities of Mr. Trump and his caucus: a desire for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts, a wish to trim federal spending, and concerns about rising federal debts.

The budget Mr. Johnson negotiated for the next decade, a first step in passing that agenda, calls for around $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, in an effort to counterbalance a portion of the tax cuts.

[Wifes husband]

31. Sorry. You cannot count on that

He is delusional. He actually said today that his approval rating is the highest ever, which is just false.

He is one of the biggest liars in history, but I also believe he often actually believes what he says, at least in the moment.

Don't count on any decision from this administration being based upon any kind of rational thought

[Silent Type]

51. I can. But, you don't have to.

[elocs]

60. Will there be midterms? Free and fair midterms?

I mean, why would Trump even allow there to be free and fair midterms when we Democrats crow all the time about how it will be the midterms that save us?

[mucholderthandirt]

10. Mine is due the third of the month, but sometimes it's deposited on the last day of the month before..

That means it might be here on the 28th. I don't know why they do it, and it doesn't always happen, but it's nice to get it a bit early.

I'm nervous about March's payment, to be sure. And the amount, if it's the full payment.

I like to think Trump won't mess with SS, not really, but look at the mess he's already made. He's done more damage in four weeks than he managed the entire four years the first time.

[Wifes husband]

34. Who would have thought the IRS would have staff cut at tax time?

[DENVERPOPS]

45. Back in the HWBush regime

He went into the head of the IRS and told him he wanted him to hire 2000 new auditors. The head of the IRS was elated.
Then, HW told him they all were to target the 15 to 25K a year earners, because THAT was where the fraud was taking place........
The head of the IRS explained to him that that income group usually had to spend all their money on living expenses, and even if they committed fraud it would be such a trivial amount it wouldn't account to much money. He also explained to HW that they had proof that the majority of tax fraud was committed by the 200K and higher income a year earners. And that the amount collected off of their fraud was considerably more significant. HW told him that if he used the auditors to go after the 200+ crowd, the deal was off.
So.....the additional auditors never happened........

[Puppyjive]

11. The biggest threat

Social Security is running out of workers. When you freeze hiring, Houston, there is a problem. The Trump administration is not making anything better. It takes years to train the people who work there and because the job is so complicated, no one wants to stay. Elon wants to get rid of all of the workers who are the most knowledgeable. The employees are getting tired of the bullshit and a large portion are eligible to retire. The workload is too much.

[slightlv]

19. It's the infantile degradation, as much or more than the workload!

Say you've worked at the same Fed Job (or DoD for me) for 25 years. You've got not only skill learning to do the job, but all the institutional knowledge and historical knowledge that comes with that position. I know when I retired, I couldn't hurt the person who would be taking my position, no matter how much animus I had towards the idiots blowing off my disability. So, I spent all weekend... practically every hour on the weekend, even going without sleep, so that I could create a user manual of the position. It ended up being over 200 pages, just to explain how to do my job, what to expect from whom, and when they should have the info to you, etc. No one even said "thank you." But I left the damned job with a clear conscience. I can tell you if I was leaving under the circumstances right now, there's no way I'd have done a tenth of what I did for the next person. And there you have a big problem. Critical, complex positions with no training and no OJT to apprentice with. It's going to be so screwed up, and I hate to say it, but the fed workers who are fired have every right to just pick up their stuff and walk out. Period. Treating them like they are 5 years old is totally freaking insulting. "Name 5 things".... and now I read where they're going to use AI to go over all these notes. Ask me how much I trust AI! THIS should be a firing offense right there... being fired by a machine that has no history, no knowledge, and no expertise on your particular job. I am so p'o'd about this, and I'm not even working any longer! But I have so many friends and family who are caught in this web and are almost beside themselves with worry.

The man has no right to do this to any American worker, especially since he was neither born here, nor has he held a job here. It's just so frustrating and infuriating not to be able to strike back at him somehow.

[3catwoman3]

35. "...if I was leaving under the circumstances right now...

... there's no way I'd have done a tenth of what I did for the next person."

This reminds me of a situation when I left a job many years ago. Totally different circumstances, but similar feeling. I'd been the reluctant head nurse of a 16 bed pediatric unit at a rather backwater hospital in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I hadn't wanted the job, but it was the only thing available at the time. Something more suitable came along after 6 miserable months. I gave 6 weeks notice, which I thought was quite generous.

At noon on my last day 3 hours before the day shift was to end, the admins sent a nurse over from one of the 2 adult units for me to orient to being the pediatric head nurse - 3 hours! I thought, "Watch how hard I'm (not) going to try." The hell with it.

[Puppyjive]

39. Thank you

I stay to keep my office open and protect my coworkers from too much workload. They could close our office if one more person left. We are a high performing office, but even with that, you can only take so much. The republicans are to blame as well. They won't pass a budget.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. And Musk isn't even an employee

The Repubs would have trashed Trump and gotten Musk elected as president, but not being born here, I don't think he can be president..............

Plus, not being an elected politician, and technically not even an employee, he is free to wander under Trump's authority....and commit terrorism anywhere he wishes......

The way I see the pecking order is:

Putin

Musk

Trump

Musk has visited Putin many times over the recent months and met with Putin each time.........

[slightlv]

57. I agree with your pecking order!

And no, musk is constitutionally forbidden to be president. But he seems to obey the law just as much trump and maga do. So, who knows... especially if the SCOTUS would make up so law allowing it. He's the devil in the details here. I think it's even more important to get musk gone than trump. Both have to go, but Musk is doing us much more immediate harm at the moment. And that needs to stop... now. Unfortunately, our justice system doesn't seem up to the task of taking care of really bad criminals.

[dflprincess]

12. My is also in a pending status

I've been checking my accounts every couple days of late & that's how I found it was already out there. Not as a big deal this month as I'm working through the 6th & have a couple more paychecks coming.

I picked a hell of a time to finally retire.

[MadameButterfly]

18. Just the fear of losing SS will cause people to delay retirement which

will affect the job market for young people coming in, promotions for people in the middle...

[SupportSanity]

55. I had already delayed retirement - and then Trump!

So now I am delaying longer after my original delay to see if there will still be Social Security.

Remember, these guys had been trying to get rid of Obamacare (ACA) with only a concept of a plan to replace it.

Then talk of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security cuts.

I am taking nothing for granted.

And what will happen if they cripple it, defund it or Sunset it. What happens then? And if you don't think they will do that, you're welcome to your opinion.

I'm trying to expect the unexpected. The trouble is I am not even close to thinking the way these Nazis think.

So, currently I'm still working and collecting to see if it's still safe yet.

This isn't the "living the dream" I expected at this age.

[MadameButterfly]

56. i hear you

Some family/friends think I'm paranoid and insist they wouldn't get away with ending it. But I know that the system won't survive if someone doesn't try to save it. When they go on about the fraud, they aren't doing that for no reason.

Destroying it overtly might be the thing to ruin them so they probably won't do that--not soon anyway.
So we have to make sure they don't do it by neglect or lies. And we have to win.

Meanwhile, we have to live with this uncertainty. Man.

[IronLionZion]

13. The wealthiest man in the world thinks we're all fraud, waste, and abuse.

[markodochartaigh]

14. Social Security projections

say that there should be sufficient money to pay full benefits until 2035. But these projections are predicated on a normal labor market, because benefits are mostly paid from the payroll taxes paid by workers and employers. I worry that a) Trump could set off a severe recession that could last for years, which would lower the amount that was being paid into Social Security; and b) during the next few years it will be necessary to make adjustments to Social Security and during at least some of this period the party which wants to privatize Social Security is going to be in power.

[slightlv]

20. In addition to that, decades ago adjustments were made both in ret age

and in withholding to create a "boomer cushion"... now, I have no idea if the R's left any money in it, but I know there were sure mad about it when it was started, and it eventually came down to Al Gore's "Lockbox" to keep at least some of the money away from them. With the actuarial tables they created they truly felt they had us boomers accounted for and into the next generation to retire. Any shortcomings, and blame your republican politicians. They've been stealing from us right and left for any reason... but especially to pay for their wars.

[markodochartaigh]

27. Saturday Night Live

sketches making fun of Al Gore's lockbox really left a bad taste in my mouth.

[Silent Type]

23. President Obama tried to do something about the looming SS deficit. He was rewarded with bashing by Democrats

and people called it the "cat food commission," even though it would have increased payments for those on the lower end.

We keep screwing ourselves.

[Wonder Why]

15. If any of you should have gotten a payment and did not, I just wanted to let you know that I am

a good friend of Eloon and he has forwarded all your payments to me. I just wanted to say thanks to you all.

[ihaveaquestion]

17. I had to change my med advantage health insurance plan at the last minute last year...

So now I'm worried that the payments from Medicare to the new insurer will be mucked up. This is a stress none of needs right now!

[Exp]

21. Why do we even have to wonder if our government is out to get us? A serious WTF? nt

[ReRe]

25. We need to call this fear what it really is:

T. E. R. R. O. R. I. S. M.

The majority of Seniors depend solely on their Social Security. And terror is what each and every one of them feel with Elon Musk on the loose in the White House & Treasury.

[viva la]

28. Mine comes on Wed... I hope.

And I hope everyone who newly qualifies for Medicare and SS gets the check on time.

[3825-87867]

29. If they are holding or stopping my SS...

then I want all the money I paid in over my lifetime PLUS interest at the current rates for all those years...and in one lump, tax free sum.

Only fair. It's our money. And I bet it would be more than the 500 billion tramp wants from Ukraine! Probably in the Trillions.

I'm sure Congress would open their purse strings for us just like they do for the Billionaires!

Or I sue, and so should everyone. Gonna be a lot of richer lawyers.

Take that ruling, Scotus!

[mamacita75]

30. I got

mine!! Try not to worry unless one does not get deposited. It is hard but I cannot handle the worry and waiting. I just keep hoping my espouso gets theirs.

[Wolf Frankula]

32. I applied 6 weeks ago, I'm 70, and I still have not received it.

How long is it supposed to take?

Wolf

[LogDog75]

37. Remember when Reagan said: The nine scariest words are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help"

After nearly 40 years. Musk and co-president Trump are fulfilling Reagan's statement.

[Historic NY]

38. I have it automatically deposited.