Social Security Stimulus Why Recipients Shouldn T Hold Out For 1 400 Check Anytime Soon

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan advocacy group, started a pressure campaign back in October to push Congress to assist those receiving Social Security with supplementary stimulus money. Since then, inflation has increased more than two percent, making last year’s historic cost of living increase a moot point and no stimulus money is on the horizon.

                By                    David Nadelle                

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Is a check in the works? Mary Johnson, TSCL’s Social Security and Medicare Policy analyst, told KGW.com’s VERIFY team that it is early on in the legislative year — and is an election year as well — so the league is hopeful that “a provision will be included in relevant budget legislation later this fall.”

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Johnson previously shared at the time that seniors are away of how little buying power their money now has, explaining that, “for every $100 of goods or services that retirees bought in 2000, today they would only be able to buy $60 worth.”