Quote by shelaghc:
I had hopes of reducing my work hours at least down to thirty per week this year.
I'm already receiving SS checks and using them to *try* to build up my 401k a bit. I was also anticipating a small raise that would have helped make reducing my hours a little easier.

That means I'm deducting almost $1000 in that account monthly and using SS to pay rent and some bills.

That means I *would* miss my SS check, although I could arrange to reduce my deduction to make up the difference I'd miss.

I had to make the decision not to reduce my hours because my workplace receives about 99% of their funding from Medicaid and they're worried about what the orange nightmare's cuts might do to the organization on the whole.
So that means it's unlikely I'll get any kind of raise at all.

And if they screw with SS, I won't have that as a buffer for my reduced hours.

I just checked with my bank this morning and I *did* get my monthly SS deposit. No guarantee of that next month though.
Or the month after that.

SS is the only thing guaranteeing I can finally save substantially and still live in a decent neighborhood.

But I know people who live entirely month to month just on SS.

One used to be a science fiction writer but never really made a decent living from it.
She has disabilities, lives in a senior income-based apartment building and is terrified about cuts to HUD, SNAP, programs that help her with paying for heat, Medicare, increased prices of prescriptions, and now the potential loss of her monthly SS - her *only* income..
She now has to consider trying to write again so she can afford to eat and stay where she lives, and feels that she's forced into looking towards websites like Patreon.
This is someone who needs to ask friends to help her for *any* unexpected expenses. She has absolutely no savings for emergencies.
(And let's not even discuss that if, by some miracle, she wound up with more than $2000 in savings she wouldn't be eligible for that income-based housing.)

Fuck you, Lutnick.