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Trump/Musk/DOGE cutting Social Security and Medicare Benefits to Seniors
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Musk is POS it's messed up to tamper with people social security.
Oklahoma City man says social security benefits terminated without warning or explanation
Spencer Humphrey/KFOR
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A local retiree says his Social Security benefits were suddenly suspended without warning — and with no explanation given when he reached out. He worries it may have to do with the place he was born, and ongoing DOGE cutbacks.
The man, who was born to an active duty U.S. Solider at an overseas U.S. Army base, says because of recent comments from Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk, he’s worried his benefits were cut because of his foreign birthplace.
Earlier this month, Musk, the billionaire head of DOGE, pushed for major cuts to Social Security, calling it a “Ponzi scheme,” claiming the system is rife with people fraudulently receiving benefits.
Particularly, Musk claimed during an interview with Fox Business, with no evidence, that many illegal immigrants are receiving social security, calling for them to be removed from Social Security’s rolls.
The Hill reported economists say the levels of fraud Musk has talked about “just don’t exist.”
Earlier this month, NBC News reported former Social Security administrator Martin O’Malley warned that DOGE’s cuts to Social Security could disrupt benefits for millions of Americans for the first time since Social Security’s founding.
Now, James McCaffrey, a retiree living in Oklahoma City, worries he may have been one of the first of them.
McAffrey, 66, says he there was one thing he most looked forward about retirement.
“More time with the grandkids,” McAffrey told News 4.
He says he made sure to save up enough retirement money to—quite frankly—spoil his three grandkids.
“I went out and bought [my granddaughter] a new jacket,” McCaffrey said. “She’s thrilled. And then her sister says, ‘well, you know, she got a new jacket. Where’s mine?’ I said, ‘I’ll get you one.’”
He also looked forward to being able to travel more with his wife, who is nearing retirement herself.
But he thought all those dreams would have to come to a halt, after he opened his mail on Tuesday.
“I’d hate to have to turn around and say, ‘Well, I have to worry about my next check,’” he said.
That’s because in the mail was a bill from Medicare — that he wasn’t expecting.
“It said that I needed to pay $740 before the 25th of this month or I was going to lose my Medicare,” McCaffrey said.
That seemed odd, since his Medicare payment is normally deducted from his Social Security check.
“So I called Medicare,” he said. “They returned my call after a wait and told me that they were unable to process it through my Social Security payment, that there was some problem with it. We talked for a bit. He kind of let it out that he thinks it’s a possibility that my Social Security was suspended.”
And that — definitely didn’t make sense to McCaffrey.
“I thanked him for his time and called Social Security,” he said.
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.
He asked the Social Security agent if there’s anything she could do to fix it.
“She said she was going to input some stuff and that she hoped that would take care of it,” he said.
And by the next morning, sure enough, the issue had been fixed.
“I just got a simple email on my phone,” McCaffrey said. “It said that my normal payment was going to resume in April.”
The email didn’t mention anything about the March payment he never received.
He took it upon himself to check his bank account, where he saw his March check had now been deposited.
“Well, that’s fine and dandy,” McAffrey said. “I enjoyed that, but they gave me no explanation.”
For him to get an explanation, he had to become his own detective of sorts.
He thought back to an experience he had two years ago when he first went to a Social Security office to apply for benefits.
“The first person I talked to at the Social Security Administration told me that I was not an American citizen,” McCaffrey said.
McCaffrey was born on a U.S. Army base in Germany, where his father was stationed for active duty.
He has an American birth certificate—officially stamped and sealed by the federal government.
“I was on American soil,” he said. “I’m American. She told me I was going to need to hire a lawyer, get a naturalization before I could even apply for Social Security.”
But when he returned another day with his birth certificate and passport, a different employee told him there was no issue.
“Got a different person, presented my things to him, and he says, ‘I don’t need these. You’re fine. I don’t know what. She’s just misinformed.’ And I’ve never had a problem with anything until [Tuesday],” McCaffrey said.
Then he remembered something he had recently seen on TV.
Elon Musk, the billionaire in charge of DOGE, spoke about Social Security during an interview on Fox Business Network.
In the interview, Musk suggested, without citing evidence, that non-citizens in large numbers are receiving Social Security benefits, and called for them to be purged from the system.
“[Federal entitlements] is also a mechanism by which Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants, by essentially paying them,” Musk said during the March 10 interview on Fox Business. “If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave.”
That made McAffrey wonder about his own situation.
“I think they went into Social Security and suspended all foreign addresses, whether you reside at home, born on them,” he said.
News 4 reached out to the Social Security Administration for an explanation, but officials declined to comment, citing confidentiality rules.
The News 4 to put them in touch with McCaffrey.
He says a representative with the Social Security Administration called him on Wednesday, but still offered no explanation for why his benefits were terminated.
“It makes me wonder how many other people are going to get—or have gotten—that same Medicare letter,” McCaffrey said.
He worries about people who may not have the time and resources he had to get to the bottom of what happened and get his benefits back.
“I’ve been a diligent Boy Scout type, I prepared,” he said. “But, no, I shouldn’t have to.”
He also worries about people who may not share the same savings or the same financial cushion the he had to fall back on. “And you interrupt that for seven days, two weeks or even longer, and they’re in bad trouble,” he said. “They could be out of the house. They could be out of food. I don’t know.”
This is like when Obama did last minute fukk yous to the republicans during his last term. Trump basically giving fukk yous to everybody that's not on his 1 inch foreskin.Dude fitting to do the following:
- fukk up some commas with the country
- Make up some bullshyt excuse to "resign"
- While the republicans get eating alive, Trump "disappears"
- Musk ends up being the fall guy
- The country is "saved"
- Everybody forgot about the destruction of the country like the pandemic
MoshpitMazi
Moshpit Gxng/ Anti Fash
Faggit ass need to be put on a T
#bothsides though.
the cac mamba
Veteran
Piffiztheanswer
L'immortale
Now this is where they start hurting everyone personally. Its gonna get real ugly real quick.
Dude fitting to do the following:
Another day another bitcoin
- fukk up some commas with the country
- Make up some bullshyt excuse to "resign"
- While the republicans get eating alive, Trump "disappears"
- Musk ends up being the fall guy
- The country is "saved"
- Everybody forgot about the destruction of the country like the pandemic
Trump is in his second term. He doesn’t have to face the electorate ever again.
He will go to whatever limits of his power.
Best that they get to it ASAP. Folks are going to be in the streets fukking shyt up. Hell, its happening now but its not nearly enough of them. Definitely have to be ready in case the mothafukka starts using creative military methods on US citizens.
yeah you right. i love you too. be sure to get out a vote next election because fags like me wont lolol
If this gets more coverage he’s going to be in Biden or Bush territory on approvals
Tell your grandparents and parents brehs
Recca Gatsby
LWO
This thread is missing a lot of people 
Where all those maga posters to spin this
Where all those maga posters to spin this
They voted for it
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