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Zhi Zhu 🕸️Billionaire Trump Official Says Missing Social Security Checks Are No Big DealHoward <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Lutnick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Lutnick</a> suggested that anyone who would actually complain about a missing benefit is a "fraudster" <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/howard-lutnick-missing-social-security-checks-1235301307/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/howard-lutnick-missing-social-security-checks-1235301307/</a>"Lutnick’s comments come as <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a> & his minions from the so-called Dept of Govt Efficiency ( <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>) have invaded the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> Administration, implementing big changes & leading <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Americans</a> to worry that their <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> could be in danger."<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a>

NonilexDudek first made his threat to close down the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> Administration during a Bloomberg News interview Thurs night.  Such a dramatic move would be unprecedented in the agency’s history & would immediately begin halting benefit payments for millions of Americans.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/YourMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YourMoney</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PayrollTax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PayrollTax</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InfoSec</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/senoirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#senoirs</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/survivors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#survivors</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FICA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FICA</a> <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/social-security-says-doge-ruling-could-force-agency-to-shut-down" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-20/social-security-says-doge-ruling-could-force-agency-to-shut-down</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayJon Davis (Guardian); on that 'difficult decision'<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/inequality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#inequality</a>

Suswati Basu (巴苏) :verified:Some days are for stories, while others are for reality. Amid the troubling news for disabled people in both the UK and the US, I examine the historical term ‘benefit’ and why it is misleading. It’s hard to concentrate on creative writing when these things happen.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disability</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Benefits</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PIP</a> <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/benefit-is-the-wrong-word?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/suswatibasu/p/benefit-is-the-wrong-word?r=5rxnp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayThis morning there are lots of responses to Labour's proposed cuts to disability benefits, here are just two:1. As Anna Landre argues, what the Govt. actually needs to do is: 'ask disabled people who want to work what keeps them from doing so & construct targeted policies to address those barriers'...rather than just assume they know the answers & can make disabled people's decisions about support for them.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#disability</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/views/labour-welfare-force-disabled-out-of-work-pip-starmer-benefits/</a>

AthanasiusRe: <a href="https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/03/14/green-mps-write-to-labour-colleagues-to-urge-benefit-cuts-opposition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/03/14/green-mps-write-to-labour-colleagues-to-urge-benefit-cuts-opposition/</a> (as per last RT)This is why I'm a paid up member of the Green Party (of England & Wales).If these sorts of cuts go through I'm very likely to be affected. I'm still on the legacy Employment and Support Allowance (Income Related, although if I fail any Work Capability Assessment (WCA) I'm put on the Contributions Based version until that is appealed), and also receive PIP.I live comfortable *for me*, because I just don't go out, don't eat out, don't order food in etc. I run a small monthly surplus that allows me to actually have savings, buy a few occasional luxuries (for me this means new computer equipment, and not worrying about if I can afford a particular computer game), and donate any further surplus to charities.Personally what *I* need from any UK government is to fix the provision of mental health care by the NHS. I've repeatedly gone through a dance of talking to my GP about it, being referred to a psychiatrist, trying all manner of medications that don't help (and often have side effects), then being punted out to the likes of MIND, i.e. charity/volunteer organisations, who then also don't know what to do with me.I am diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder, along with General and Social Anxiety. I *manage* my condition by simply not challenging myself too much. Even the mere *thought* of trying to work sends me into a panic, knowing I'd last at most a few months, more likely weeks or days before falling apart.The last time I had trouble with a WCA I almost threw myself into traffic upon exiting the building the first appeal was held in (thankfully the second appeal went my way), and the next day ended up being taken to a hospital in an ambulance due to high suicidality.If I can't pay rent, buy food and pay other bills, I die. I am a conduit for tax money to go through the economy again (private landlord, mostly Tesco for food/household).<a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labour</a>

Police State UK"Rayner raised <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labour</a> MPs’ worries about the depth of the cuts to the <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> system — which include radical reforms that the former Conservative government blanched at during the “<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#austerity</a>” period a decade ago. <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKPol</a> <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/befa195d-0977-4a07-ad9d-881056472860" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/befa195d-0977-4a07-ad9d-881056472860</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayApparently a Govt. 'source' has today suggested that Labour MPs making representations (complaining) about the prospective benefits freezes & cuts are (actually) just 'pearl clutching'If true then this is both ageset & sexist if being used as an insult (its unclear how else it might be intended), and suggests Labour 'managers' have developed a tin ear for any political development outside the confines of the Westminster Village.<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/austerity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#austerity</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> h/t Simon Fletcher/Modern Left

Zhi Zhu 🕸️$42.5 Billion Broadband Grant Program Being Rewritten To Benefit Elon Musk <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/12/42-5-billion-broadband-grant-program-being-rewritten-to-benefit-elon-musk/</a>"there are $42.5 billion in broadband <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/grants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grants</a>... courtesy of the 2021 <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infrastructure</a> bill. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> voted against the bill, but have repeatedly... taken credit for its looming <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> among our broadly misinformed electorate. And, as we predicted, they’re now redrafting key components of the program to the direct benefit of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a>"<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Coup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Coup</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>

Nonilex<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElonMusk</a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> has sent 3 individuals w/experience in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PrivateEquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivateEquity</a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finance</a> to the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> Admin, highlighting the focus that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> is putting on *rooting out waste & fraud in the nation’s social insurance programs* [dismantling & privatizing the system].<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#benefits</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#government</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/kleptocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kleptocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpCoup</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://archive.is/2025.03.10-183556/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-s-doge-team-sends-private-equity-veterans-to-social-security-agency" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/2025.03.10-183556/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-10/musk-s-doge-team-sends-private-equity-veterans-to-social-security-agency</a>

JuneSim63These b@stards are cutting £6bn from the poorest and most vulnerable in society. If they want to find the money, simply create it and cancel the debt by taxing those who avoid their legal responsibilities. I've just protested to my MP. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LabourAusterity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LabourAusterity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UKPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKPolitics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Benefits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Benefits</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SocialSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SocialSecurity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Disability</a>Starmer braces for rebellion over welfare cuts as Labour accused of ‘pushing disabled people into poverty’ <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-braces-for-rebellion-over-welfare-cuts-as-labour-accused-of-pushing-disabled-people-into-poverty/ar-AA1ABmfE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/starmer-braces-for-rebellion-over-welfare-cuts-as-labour-accused-of-pushing-disabled-people-into-poverty/ar-AA1ABmfE</a>

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