Fighting for Seniors
386 views · Published 30 September 2009 · 3:24 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: Senator Bernie Sanders · 2009 · News & Politics
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter DeFazio welcomed more than 120,000 signatures from seniors supporting their bill to provide a one-time, $250 payment next year to more than 50 million seniors so Social Security benefits do not shrink. Unless Congress acts, benefits will drop for the first time in decades because there will be no cost-of-living adjustment while Medicare prescription drug premiums, which are deducted from Social Security, will go up.
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