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Social Security Letter to Congress
 

 

November 2005

 VOR supports the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) position opposing efforts to privatizing Social Security, now or in the future.

“Any effort to create private accounts is alarming: they will cut guaranteed benefits and jeopardize the program’s long-term financial future. Families of workers who lose their lives or their livelihood due to disability must be able to count on guaranteed Social Security benefits. If we don't reject private accounts now, we will see an enormous social disaster for years to come.” CCD, Nov. 2005.

 
Text Box:  VOR supports the Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities (CCD) position opposing efforts to privatizing Social Security, now or in the future. “Any effort to create private accounts is alarming: they will cut guaranteed benefits and jeopardize the program’s long-term financial future. Families of workers who lose their lives or their livelihood due to disability must be able to count on guaranteed Social Security benefits. If we don't reject private accounts now, we will see an enormous social disaster for years to come.” CCD, Nov. 2005.  

 Dear Senator:

Please vote “no” S. 1750 (Santorum). This legislation would divert $1.1 trillion in the first decade from the Social Security trust fund into private accounts and worsen Social Security’s solvency problems.

Please vote “no” on S. 1302 (DeMint). This legislation discriminates based on age in that it only applies to people born before 1950. Furthermore, by providing for a “legally enforceable guarantee,” for people born before 1950, it makes promises that Congress won’t be able to keep, setting up the inevitable need to privatize Social Security in the future.

Please vote “no” on any effort to allow the bills to be considered without first undergoing Committee consideration. 

Please request a beneficiary impact statement on every major part of any serious Social Security proposal to understand the actual impact of changes on people’s daily lives.

Any changes in Social Security must preserve it as family insurance for everyone who is eligible regardless of whether they have a disability. Private accounts will not provide the same security: they will cut guaranteed benefits and greatly increase both the budget deficit and national debt. Social Security must continue to provide guaranteed benefits for children and spouses when their spouse or parent retires, dies or becomes disabled.  Changes in Social Security are too important — and too risky — to make using procedural shortcuts in the Senate. 

Sincerely,

Mary McTernan, Ph.D.

 President

 

 

 

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