No Social Security Increase in 2010

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Why waste my time or for that matter anyones time adding thoughts to this already decided answer ...... Everyone in congress, the Senate, the Presidential office and anyone else who has anythng to do with government decisions know we seniors need to have a COLA each year. If they can spend trillions upon trillions of our tax dollars for aid to other countries they sure could afford to pay us seniors a cola and a much larger COLA at that since they have all this extra cash they can send to other countries. It is to bad that our own government cannot take care of their own people who also need funds to survive ..... I have no problem helping other countries when they need help ... but ... our own people need to come first ..... while I am at it why should seniors have to continue to pay taxes on their homes when they retire, we have paid taxes all our lives, I think we could use a break in paying taxes on our homes. Many many many seniors loose their homes because they can no longer afford to pay the taxes on their property .... after all the years we, they have paid on their properties and then loose it because they cannot pay the taxes on it any longer is so un American .... or do we even still live in a America .. sometimes I do wonder with all the decisons made by our government .... Need I say any more ...

Joe of PA 10:54PM March 06, 2010

What happened to the $250.00 check that was proposed and the Senator's sent letters to the recipients?
Must have gone to 'foreign aid' as we sure do not have it!!
Help the people in this country, who built it out of hard work and dedication.
Just because no COLA was given to SS and other retirements, did not mean our out of pocket expenses did not increase due to food, health care, prescriptions...need I say more?
So Senator's, don't waste the tax payers money on your staff writing us emails explaining why you cannot justify a COLA but that perhaps the $250.00 may be forth coming.

Judy of AZ 11:33PM February 23, 2010

Why aren't the double dipping, retired government employees penalized in the same way the social security retirees are penalized?
We need to merge all of the government retirement plans into social security and stop the economic injustice immediately.
Requiring government employees to pay into the Social Security retirement system would produce enough money to fund everything.

Barb of OH 7:46PM February 11, 2010

The earings limit for those deciding to take their benefits early is a penalty that needs to be changed to reflect what is going on in this country today. Many people at 62-65 are opting for early social security beneftis simply to get a paycheck. This age group has found themselves downsized, layed-off or simply eliminated. Many have gone on to find other work but at much lower salaries than they were earning. With the hit on home prices and 401ks, we don't have the luxury of somply retiring on our Social security. Since they are already taking a hit with a lower benefit, why do we have to penalize them twice by limiting how much they can earn? If a 64 year old for instance finds a job for 30,000 a year, he or she is penalized and has to give back 8,000. With the max early retirement payment of about 1400/mo (16,800/yr.) the 30,000/ a yr job nets 24,800. If we let that individual work and earn the 30,000 in addition to his reduced SS benefit, he would earn 16, 800 plus the 30,000 for a yearly total of 46,800. If the administration cannot make a permanent change then how about a one or two year moratorium on the earnings cap until we get out of this horrible economic mess?

Rick of NH 11:57AM January 23, 2010

It makes no sense to me not to give seniors and disabled individuals an increase in their benefit each and every year regardless of economy. The cost of living has increased regardless if the govenment has seen it or not and I am positive they have. The cost of gas to run your car increases all the time but we do not get an increase in our benefits to cover gas to run our vehicles to go to the store or to the doctors or just to have something availalbe to run emregency's or go visit our relatives. Heating oil has increased to heat our homes but it seems that does not matter to our governement, we just freeze because we can't afford to heat our homes without an increase to cover the heating bill. Electic is going to sky rocket and we need an increase to cover the electric bill but it seems our government doesn't consider that important enough to give us a increase in our benefits so we can survive using our electric appliances and have light at night. We just can't go to work and work over time to make the extra money we need to pay the increased bills that have been tossed to us or work over time to pay for the groceries we need to survive since everything has increased in the food industry. Clothing has increased but dowe get an increase inour benefits to buy clothing, absolutely not because according toour government we do not need a increase for clothing ....... I really do not think that our government understands our daily needs when we retire and have only our retirement to live on. For that matter people who have become disabled and on a fixed disability income do not have any change at all to make extra money working over time to pay the increased cost of living and especially those who have been forced to retire early due to injury and being put on disability incomes do not have a chance at earning extra money to pay bills. Not allowing us who are retired or on a disability income we did not want to gain extra income thru a yearly cost

of 9:56PM January 10, 2010

No one's messing up the country. We'll get out of this mess, just like we have always. Set back and take a 'Chill Pill'. Stick with the leadership.

JAMES WILLIAMS of PA 1:15PM January 10, 2010

YALL NEED TO RELIZE THAT OBAMA DID NOT MESS THIS WORLD UP!!!!!!!!!!! AND IF YOU ARE NOT SATIFIED WITH HIM WHY DIDN'T YOU THAT ARE COMPLAINING, RUN FOR PRESIDENT? SOME PEOPLE ARE NEVER SATIFIED. GET OVER IT HE IS NOT A MIRICLE WORKER BUT AT LEAST HE IS TRYING. LET ME SEE YOU RUN FOR SOMETHING IMPORTANT INSTEAD OF YOU MOUTH. LOL

MARY of LA 1:16PM January 04, 2010

when is assbbahma gonna send the 250.00 Its near enough and certainily isn't fair. I would like to say to his face what hes doing but he to busy spending my cost of living raise Kinda bad

Robert of AZ 5:01AM January 04, 2010

I can only pray that Obama doesn't totally destroy America before the yes sir congressman wake up. I think we need to revote 90% of congress out, and get in normal people that can make decisions for the people. Obama is destroying America, and building himself an empire. He acts like he on one long vacation.

of 7:43AM January 01, 2010

The consumer price index is not a complete cost-of-living measure. Last time I looked, many of my monthly bills from utilities (Water, electric) are going up. This is a disgrace to the elderly who are on social security and many are just barely getting by on this SS check (the $250 is joke too). Billions have been spent on this stupid war in Iraq as well as other wastefull government spending from studying bees to weather-- millions are spent monthly on wasted programs. Social Security could be increased to 10%, feed every poor person in the country for the next 25 years and everyone in the country mailed a checked for $100,000 if we stopped this insane obsession of going to war all the time.
This is another money grab from the government.

Mark Leavitt of CT 7:33PM December 30, 2009