Economic Security for Seniors: Fact Sheet via @NCOAging https://shar.es/...
Earlier this week, I wrote about Bernie Sanders, a few read it. I want you to know the pain
happening now in the neighborhood where you live by many senior citizens.
Do any of you know a senior citizen over 70 working because they have to?
I know an 80-year-old woman who just got hired at an arts and crafts store. She has a small mobile home with a beautiful garden Her husband has passed, and she lives on $800 a month. Her mobile home park just raised monthly dues that all must pay to live
in the park.
She has a bad back, poor eyesight, and goes to the food bank. The ACA gives her medical care.The quality of medical care is poor because the clinic is overflowing with customers and too few caregivers.
The food bank helps with her food. She can sew and is a great cook. She reminds me of
my Grandmother.
Over 20 million senior citizens live in poverty in America right now. Millions of seniors have to go to a food bank or get charity care. My 68-year-old friend cleans two houses a day. She scrubs toilets, cleans shit, waxes floors by hand sometimes.
I've now met a senior citizen with a sign. Her eyes stare at the ground. She seems so ashamed.
I'm ashamed that people over 70 are treated with such little respect. I'm ashamed I live
In a country that cares so little for the elderly poor. I'm ashamed we are not expanding
Social security payments to at least equal the amount of money that defines a person as
poor.If you earn less than $1,000 a month as a single person you are poor( source
Government charts).
I hope you're saving money, planning for "the golden years. Bernie will never be president, and Social Security will probably go up less than 2 percent a year. I get Social Security disability.
Get angry, fight for your grandparents, fight for you so life will be better when you get old. Expand Social Security payments to $1.500 a month for every Senior and let them have special rates for everything. Give all Social Security people the same as I have on disability. Make these
new benefits begin at age 70.
Your grandparents should not have to beg or want. We owe them that
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