Fiscal Hawks in Congress: Keep your hands off Social Security!

For decades, the National Committee has tirelessly battled attacks on our social insurance system, which always come from fiscal hawks claiming big changes must be made to reduce deficits. This is currently occurring at a time when millions of Social Security beneficiaries are struggling to afford soaring prescription drug prices and higher out-of-pocket health care costs, and growing numbers of senior Americans are counting on their earned benefits just to stay out of poverty.

That is why we cannot leave anything to chance in the 116^th Congress (2019-2020). We must continue to remind our elected officials that retirees and working Americans oppose cuts to Social Security in order to reduce soaring deficits or pay for costly tax policies that mostly benefit the wealthy and multinational corporations. So please sign our Petition today!

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Subject Millions of Americans are counting on earned benefits

Dear [my representative]

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I have worked my entire life to earn Social Security benefits to which I am entitled. In fact, America’s more than 49.2 million seniors have paid (and over 175 million workers are currently paying) their hard-earned money into this vital program. Social Security guarantees benefits for millions of Americans — and without this critical safety net program, almost 40% of older Americans would fall into poverty.

As your constituent and a voter in your state, I urge you to please vote against any version of legislation that would result in slashing my current and future Social Security benefits to pay for other fiscal policies, including deficit reduction or tax breaks for the wealthiest among us. Furthermore, I urge you to work closely with the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare to protect and strengthen the benefits I have worked for, paid for and earned.

Please know that I will monitor your actions on any vote affecting Social Security and allot my support accordingly.

Sincerely,

[First Name] [Last Name]