I have trouble believing it but apparently Social Security sent out this e-mail yesterday to many Social Security benefits recipients. It didn’t go out to all of them. I’m on retirement benefits and I did not receive it.
This is wrong. It’s probably illegal. It’s misleading. The “Big Beautiful Bill” contains no provisions touching on the work done by the Social Security Administration.
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This email went out as propaganda to people who don't collect SSA, are nowhere near the age bracket that this propaganda intends to befuddle, are not employed by SSA... The only thread I've found in common is that, for one valid reason or another, these people all have a login.gov account.
But then again, Bisignano has past ties to using contractors and Palantir to obtain information he has no right to, so it doesn't shock me that this administration used all that data mining to find a way to push their propaganda. SSA's newest IT Specialist has a history of hacking and leaking inside information, and has been fired before in private sector for it. SSA's newest Chief Information Officer has flat out publicly LIED to generate public distrust of public servants. And SSA's CIO-turned-Senior Advisor got inside the gates and granted read/write access to an off-site software engineer, completely bypassing standard background checks and protocol, to share the SSNs, names, finances, citizenship status, and countless other details with DOGE tech bros (not to mention he was in Bisignano's ear and pulling Dudek's strings before Bisignano even had his confirmation hearing).
I'm so saddened and angered by the consequences this propaganda will have for SSA employees come Monday morning.
Two emails went out depending on subscription. One was from the Press Release site and the one above was from the Blog site. As an SSA employee my heart sank when I read them.
The trust fund is a year closer to insolvency.
The latest version of the GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” which passed both houses of Congress this week and is headed to President Trump for his signature on Friday, includes a $6,000 tax deduction for Americans 65 or older.
The provision does not entirely end taxes on Social Security, but it would zero out the Social Security tax burden for 88 percent of seniors, according to an estimate by President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers.
It estimated that under the changes in the legislation Trump is expected to sign, the Social Security trust fund could be insolvent by 2032.
Currently, Social Security benefits are partially taxable, with revenue from those taxes going back into the fund.
If this isn't a violation of the Hatch Act, what is?
But then we have a totally corrupted Attorney General who sees nothing wrong with violating any law that benefits Der Führer
Interestingly I am a Federal employee on admin leave right now and I got one.
It went to people who used SSA online services as of February 2025, roughly 80 million total.
And it makes no change at all to taxation of benefits. It gives and increased general deduction that they are claiming reduces the taxes paid which it does but it is not directly tied to Social Security taxation. Lying sacks of shit.
Outrageous. Forwarded to my Congress people for action.
I have heard before that the tax on Social Security benefits went back to the trust fund and not the general fund. If that is true then the fund just took another hit and will induce insolvency even quicker.
I got that e-mail and the press release even though I get my retirement from CSRS and I have the login.gov account. Now I'm wondering if I will get the same lies in another mail about my CSRS pension allegedly becoming tax-exempt?
Frank Bisignano is the commissioner because his wife gave $1 million to the Trump campaign. That's literally the only reason.
Well, that and the fact that he has no morals whatsoever.
Was trust fund money used to develop and send this message? Trust fund dollars can be spend only for benefits or for administering the program, and this is neither. It can't even claim to be conveying accurate information to future beneficiaries.
That 88 percent can't be right. There are nowehere near that many beneficiairies paying income taxes on their benefits.
OMG. It doesn't matter what's legal, what's in the regulations, or just what's the right thing. Those in charge don't care. They have SCOTUS on their side, the Republicans are too chicken to stand up for what's right, and the Democrats couldn't be weaker if they tried. You get what you vote for.
OMG! Is that the ostrich playbook?
I remember complaining about DOGE to my congressman about how they were gutting SSA and he just sent back that he sent a strongly worded letter to the president 😂…..less than worthless
This runaway administration knows they have 18 months before the midterms in 2026. That’s when the reality check will take place.
Retirement is a choice not disability, that deduction should apply to all SSDI recipients regardless of age! What a rip off!
I'm retired and received the disgusting piece of maga propaganda.
And he took the job because of the millions he saved in current tax payments had he sold his interest in FisServ but was allowed to convert his $540 Million in stock to Government Securities or an excepted investment fund and not pay capital gains and receiving current income of anywhere from $20 Million to $40 Million annually. Until he took the job, FisServ was not paying dividends so the only way to get current cash without a major tax hit was by taking the Commissioner job.
Not bad for a $1 Million dollar "contribution"
Except, there was no change at all on the taxation of Social Security benefits. Only a one time gift to seniors that may or may not have needed any further help. At least we can be thankful the Trust Fund was not really impacted.
The claim is that the tax reduction you get from the $6,000 deduction will reduce other taxes you owe. That may mean those paying taxes on their Social Security benefits pay less taxes overall, possibly much greater reduction than the taxes they pay on Social Security benefits if they even receive Social Security, but it is simply a lie to say that there was any change at all in the taxation of Social Security benefits.
Trump may not know it because he's too stupid, but our new COSS should know it and so should all the Treasury people that wrote the legislation as would members of Congress sentient enough to to understand taxes. That may not be a particularly large number.
Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s used every means possible to promote himself and prop up his agenda in unprecedented ways — even as he pulls apart the government brick by brick.
Now, it’s happening at the embattled Social Security Administration, which manages America’s core safety-net program. On Thursday, after Republicans passed Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” — legislation that will slash taxes for the rich, rob millions of poor people of their health insurance, and turbocharge the president’s militarized deportations — the Social Security Administration sent out an email to an untold number of Americans claiming the bill “reaffirms President Trump’s promise to protect Social Security” while offering a range of misinformation about what the new law does.
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