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Originally posted by mardigras
For all the talk about lazy people the fact is that the administration plans to cut 16 billion from medicaid over the next 10 years and there are hundreds of thousands of seniors losing prescription drug coverage within the next month or so. My 85 year old aunt loses hers October 1. She is a widow and her only source of income is SSI.
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If she's 85 she has LONG since gotten back what she and/or her husband paid into the SSI system which is WHY there are cut backs.
That doesn't solve her problem (better planning would have though - none of my grandparents or parents were/are dependent on SSI and I don't plan to be either) but it's the fact. People are spending SSI they never earned and it's sucking the system dry,