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Official installed by Trump moves to 'demolish' Social Security Administration
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So... my only income is SSDI.
Thats Disability.
From my entirely self-interested POV:
Optimistic View:
They don't actually directly destroy the underlying records and computer systems that keep those records and disperse payments for those already in the system, they layoff people that process new applicants and re-evaluations, and I can hopefully coast by unnoticed, at least until Congress actually passes a law to slash all payments by some fraction and/or just blanket remove a bunch of people by... some ruleset.
Pessimistic View:
They let Elon and the Broccoli boys in, they just break everything and well actually everything we broke was fraud and the proof is uh shut up, and I starve to death, unhoused, in... 30 to 60 days.
Realistic View:
Impossible to estimate in clown world.
...
I will tell ya'll that I've gotten my last two payments nearly a week early, completely out of sync with what their web portal says.
Normally it varies by a day or two off of the typical payment date because of weekends or holidays or somethinf, but that is actually reflected in the web portal.
Last two months they are not even bothering to update the date on the web portal to match the actual pay out date.
They are terrified that the Trump admin will nuke the whole thing at any moment, and are trying to buy people time.
Not fucking good.
If their actions are going to kill you then you are justified in defending yourself.
How would someone defend themselves in this instance? Double credit for how to do it with an unknown disability.
lets-a-go, yahoo
I obviously can't be specific since I don't know what the disability is, but people can be creative when it comes to reciprocal harm.