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LisaM

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16. This is also going to require people to have personal transportation.

Reply to CousinIT (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:26 PM

Mar 2025

It's bad enough that people need phone and internet to do almost everything, now this is going to require people to have cars or someone to drive them (many elderly people no longer drive).

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Heads up - Social Security - WHILE FIRING THOUSANDS AND SHUTTERING OFFICES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY ... [View all] CousinIT Mar 2025 OP

This is basically pushing grandma off the cliff. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #1

only if they need to change their status drray23 Mar 2025 #2

This is just Step One. FoxNewsSucks Mar 2025 #3

Absofuckingloutely! SheltieLover Mar 2025 #5

Or making all DENVERPOPS Mar 2025 #14

Question: My SS deposit goes to credit union "A" with which I verified my identity in person. If I want allegorical oracle Mar 2025 #27

Blood in the streets? Trexmaster Mar 2025 #23

So what if you just bamagal62 Mar 2025 #4

I tried to change my address with the Social Security Administration and I couldn't do it online. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #6

SunSeeker - was this recently or a while ago? Supposedly this change doesn't take effect until March 31. Nt CousinIT Mar 2025 #8

I tried to do it online on 11/27/24. I called that same day and they gave me an appointment for 1/16/25. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #13

I always do it over the phone. bamagal62 Mar 2025 #24

It appears to say just for new signups or direct deposit changes.... CousinIT Mar 2025 #7

My daughter in law is planning on retiring Figarosmom Mar 2025 #9

It says it can be done online if one has a login.gov or id.me account. Those who do not CousinIT Mar 2025 #11

Thanks Figarosmom Mar 2025 #20

There are only two reasons for this. yellow dahlia Mar 2025 #10

I think both but more 2 than 1. Nt CousinIT Mar 2025 #12

Yep. Both of the above. calimary Mar 2025 #22

I'd hate to see them reduce benefits for everybody KS Toronado Mar 2025 #15

IMO, believe we ought to make their Repug lives miserable -- call them over every petty allegorical oracle Mar 2025 #28

Amen, they deserve to be miserable KS Toronado Mar 2025 #31

This is also going to require people to have personal transportation. LisaM Mar 2025 #16

It's going to kill people around here. Our local SS office closed many years ago. mucholderthandirt Mar 2025 #25

They don't have the staff Puppyjive Mar 2025 #17

They closed our local offices twenty years ago bhikkhu Mar 2025 #18

Yes, we were told there was a secure computer system, it would save everybody. mucholderthandirt Mar 2025 #26

Step 2 is already tee'd up Ruby the Liberal Mar 2025 #19

We cannot allow this to happen. BarbD Mar 2025 #21

GOOD LUCK getting a single member of Congress to even mention it. nt CousinIT Mar 2025 #29

RELATED: Smears, Sadism and Social Security-Why Elon Musk wants to make seniors suffer (Krugman) CousinIT Mar 2025 #30

KNR niyad Mar 2025 #32