Consortium
for Citizens with Disabilities
Social Security Facts
Social Security provides benefits to 47 million people. They include over 7 million people with disabilities, their spouses and children. When most people talk about Social Security changes, they only discuss retirement benefits. This is a very serious concern for people with disabilities and their families because changes in the program will have a huge impact on everyone who gets benefits - not just people who retire.
The Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities [CCD] believes that any changes in the Social Security program must follow these principles:
- Keep Social Security’s current structure based on payroll taxes.
- Preserve Social Security as a social insurance program for everyone who is eligible.
- Guarantee monthly benefits adjusted for inflation.
- Preserve Social Security to meet the needs of people who are eligible now and in the future.
- Restore Social Security’s long-term financial stability.
The disability community urges Congress to request a beneficiary impact statement on every major component of any serious proposal. In a program that affects millions of individuals of all ages, it is essential for policymakers to look beyond the budgetary changes to understand the actual impact on people’s daily lives.
The CCD Social Security Task Force created a set of Fact Sheets to educate people about the potential devastating effect of major program changes. The Fact Sheets discuss the following topics:
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Overview: Social Security and People with Disabilities | |
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What Benefits Do People with Disabilities and Their Families Get from Social Security? | |
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How Does Social Security Help People with Disabilities & Their Families? | |
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How Does Social Security Protect Young Workers and Their Families? | |
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How is Social Security Funded? | |
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How Will Individual Private Accounts Affect Social Security? | |
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How Are the Social Security & SSI Disability Programs Different? | |
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Checklist: Effect of Proposed Changes on People with Disabilities & Their Families | |
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Personal Social Security Story Form | ||
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Why Social Security Private Accounts are Dangerous For People with Disabilities: Distinguishing Types of Privatization | |
CCD encourages its member organizations
and others to share the Fact Sheets with their own members, elected
officials and the press. Although the Fact Sheets were created as a
set, people may use them separately to discuss an area of special concern.
Open this Social Security Task Force Presentation with MSPowerpoint® |
The PowerPoint presentation tracks the Fact Sheets. It has 47 slides with speaker notes and is designed so you can use any or all of the slides, depending on your audience and the time you have. Click on the "notes pages" for suggested speaker remarks. This is a huge file and will take several minutes to fully download and open your PowerPoint program.
Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities , 1660 L Street NW, Suite 701, Washington, DC 20036. See www.c-c-d.org. The CCD, a coalition of over 100 national consumer, provider & advocacy organizations, advocates for national public policy to ensure the self determination, independence, empowerment, integration & inclusion of the 54 million children and adults with disabilities living in the United States.