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Honestly $200 extra a month might help ease the burden on our loved ones, that’s only two weeks of groceries for a lot of households right now. Just a personal example, the entirety of my grandmother’s benefits goes to her housing (high cola). My uncle pays her medical bills, and he’s the only one who has any money to spare. My sibling buys her groceries. I buy her clothing and other necessities as I can, but I’m essentially in the same financial situation she is. The rest of her family is dead, and in 3-5 years she may only have my sibling left to help her.

So, yes, Bernie might be slapping a bandaid on this elderly poverty problem with a possibly easy win, but it’s a starting point for further taxing the billionaires. And if we’re lucky the momentum from that will also fix education, medical access, housing, and the rest of what we know we need as a healthy society

Young people receive social security benefits too, like SSDI and survivor payments. I’ve been on SSDI myself since before I was 30 years old.

Okay, but consider the memes we will feast on if Obama is Speaker while Trump is still president

/joking

My state has this policy, too. I wonder if it is something we can change