Category: Social Security

The Save Social Security Coalition, which is led in PA by Action United and Penn ACTION is holding four events around Pennsylvania this week to say no to efforts to  end Medicare as we know it and to reduce Social Security benefits. We are going to call out members of Congress–including Representatives Barletta, Dent, Fitzpatric, Gerlach,  and Meehan, who have voted for proposals to replace Medicare with a voucher that after ten years will provide only a third of the benefits seniors get today; who have voted for a $1.7 billion reduction in Social Security; who have voted to slash 1.4 trillion from Medicaid which provides health care fo seinors, women, children and people with disabilities; and who voted to give another $1.1 trillio ntax cut to the riches Americans and cut their tax rate and the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25%. SE PA:  Chester April 28th 10:45… Continue reading

Penn Action and the Strengthen Social Security Campaign have been working to get calls into our Senators in support of the Sanders/Reid Protect Social Security Amendment.   Click here to find out how to call if you haven’t already.  While calls are flooding D.C., we’re also asking you to tell us why you made your call.  Why do you want to protect Social Security? I called because my grandfather died when my mom was only eleven years old and her younger brother was three.  Social Security survivor benefits helped keep my mom’s family afloat during that difficult time.  Social Security survivor benefits are part of the reason my grandmother could keep her home and my mom and her brothers were able to go to college, helping to secure their families’ place in America’s middle class.  I owe a lot to Social Security, which is why I made the call to protect… Continue reading

In response to Pat Toomey’s waffling on Social Security, dozens of seniors, labor leaders, and community residents brought together by Penn ACTION, Democracy for American and UFCW Local 1776 gathered at the Municipal Services Building across from City Hall to tell Toomey to come clean about his position on Social Security.  “When Pat Toomey attacks Social Security he is attacking all of us, every participant, which is every American that participates in that system,” said Arshad Hasan of Democracy for America. “Worse than that he’s attacking me and my generation – people who are working, and he’s saying, ‘you work for it, you pay into it, but you don’t get it. I don’t want to leave a system for you.’ And I think that is fundamentally unfair.” Seniors held up bars of soap and shouted, “Come clean Toomey!” Toomey came under criticism last month when he responded to a question… Continue reading