Demand the Washington Post stop aiding Trumps attack on Social Security

[John_Doe80004]

The Washington Post and the Trump administration are running parallel campaigns to divide the American people―pitting retired workers against people with disabilities―in an attempt to achieve their ultimate goal of dismantling Social Security.

In a recent front-page article, the Post attempted to justify Trump’s argument for Social Security cuts by arguing that working-age people in rural America are using Social Security Disability Insurance as a form of unemployment insurance.

The article was based on completely inaccurate data that overcounted the number of Social Security Disability beneficiaries by literally millions.

Write the Washington Post to demand they retract their false numbers and stop their attack on Social Security beneficiaries.
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https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-washington-post-stop-aiding-trumps-attack-on-social-security?

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1. When I was still in law school i worked in a law clinic

that helped elderly and indigent folks. While there I worked on several cases of denial of Social Security Disability claims. What I can tell you is that Disability claims are almost always denied. Only with help from a professional and a lot of perseverance can the genuinely disabled get the assistance to which they are entitled. It's a nasty RW fallacy, along the same lines as Ronnie Raygun's fictional 'welfare queen' which tries to claim that lots of 'able bodied folks are using SS disability as a substitute for unemployment insurance'. Bastards.