We need to insure that our social security benefits will provide for our health and welfare in our retirement. The proposed cuts could reduce the ability of seniors to provide basic food and shelter necessities as they age.

The President has proposed to limit the growth of Social Security. The initiative is called "chained CPI"--and the result would impoverish seniors for living longer. We need to stand up and remind the president that Social Security is our money and must not be used to balance the federal budget.

Social Security and Medicare cuts will severely affect our families, parents, grandparents, and ourselves. It will make life unbearable for seniors who cannot find jobs and are too frail to work. It will cast more into poverty and make our country among the worst in civilized treatment of its elderly.

Obama's proposal to calculate Social Security Cost of Living adjustments based on a chained CPI is the back door to benefit reductions. If Social Security has to be "fixed", find another way, like raising the FICA wage cap.

This petition is about possible cuts to Social Security referenced to by President Obama as a way compromise with Congress, particularly the Republicans. These cuts could have an affect on our elderly and people who receive disability. You or someone you know could further be impoverished by these cuts.

Your voice is needed in opposing President Obama's proposal to cut Social Security benefits.

In his budget proposal, President Obama has proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare. As a nation who believes in our social safety nets and the security they offer, we must oppose these proposals with a vengeance. President Obama is going against his promise to protect these programs and we urge Senator McCaskill to stand with us in opposition.

President Obama's budget to compromise by using "Chained CPI" for calculating cost of living increases in SS.

The purpose of this petition is to urge Senator Heitkamp to oppose the Social Security Cuts proposed by President Obama.

President Obama is looking to cut benefits and other programs under Social Security now or for the future. It is not affecting me now, but may for the future, but will differently affected my children's benefits or cost more out of their paycheck

cutting cost of living increases for those of us who depend on Soc Sec.

Our Social Security system has never contributed a penny to the deficit. Yet the President is planning to include cuts to Social Security in the budget he releases this year. The debt we have comes from a decade of tax cuts for the wealthy, unlimited spending on foreign wars and a recession caused by unregulated Wall Street speculation. It’s wrong to ask senior citizens, veterans and the disabled to pay for the greed of the top 1%. The President is proposing to use a cut called the “Chained CPI” that will cut benefits for every single Social Security beneficiary—now and in the future. The average earner would lose $4,631 in Social Security benefits by age 75, $13,910 by age 85; and $28,004 by age 95. These cuts are an even bigger threat to the disabled and veterans, who would face the COLA cut for 30, 40 years or more. For example, a severely disabled, unmarried veteran who claims Veterans Disability Compensation benefits today at age 30 would experience a cumulative cut of $60,121 by age 65 and $144,189 by age 85!* The average Social Security benefit is only $13,833. Over 12 million beneficiaries live on 125% of the poverty level ($13,485) or less. We have earned our retirement and disability benefits by contributing a portion of every paycheck to Social Security. And veterans have earned their benefits by putting their lives on the line for our country. ---- * According to “Inflation Indexation in Major Federal Benefit Programs: Impact of the Chained CPI,” Alison Shelton, AARP Public Policy Institute, March 2013. http://www.aarp.org/content/dam/aarp/research/public_policy_institute/econ_sec/2013/impact-of-chained-cpi-federal-programs-fs-AARP-ppi-econ-sec.pdf