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The Social Security Trust Fund has provided all working Americans financial support in their old age since President Franklin D. Roosevelt made it the center of his New Deal over 70 years ago. Unlike any private investments, Social Security provides inflation-proof income for life, furnishing millions of older Americans a crucial safety net. I believe we must strengthen Social Security over the long term, but sound analysis shows that we have time to get it right.

Calls for privatizing Social Security have been silenced by the recent volatility in the stock market.  We must work together to protect what Americans have come to depend on in retirement so that future generations continue to count on Social Security in their retirement. 

Legislation

01/30/07 - H.R. 732, To amend title II of the Social Security Act to reduce from 10 to 5 the number of years of marriage prior to divorce required for a divorced spouse to be eligible for benefits under such title

03/09/95 - H.R.1183, Social Security Sanctions Reform Act [104th Congress]

Documents

07/01/05 - Impact of Bush Social Security Proposal on NY-14

03/01/05 - Private Retirement Accounts Threaten Women's Economic Security

03/01/05 - Shiller Analysis of Lifecycle Accounts

More on Social Security

Rep. Maloney Addresses Queens Seniors on Medicare’s 45th Anniversary, Efforts to Save Program from GOP Assault

Jul 1, 2011 Press Release
Queens, NY – Today, on the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the Medicare program, U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) spoke to seniors at the HANAC Senior Center in Astoria about her efforts to fight plans put forward by the Republican House majority to end Medicare as we know it.  President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare into law on July 30, 1965 -- and on July 1, 1966, enrollees first entered the program.

On April 15th of this year, House Republicans passed a budget by a vote of 235 to 193 that would end Medicare as we know it – instead giving seniors an increasingly inadequate subsidy to buy private insurance.

MALONEY CALLS ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION TO TAKE ACTION TO ENSURE NO REPEAT OF SSI CHECK FIASCO

Apr 20, 2007 Press Release
Queens, NY -- Infuriated by the Social Security Administration’s inability to get social security checks on time to 1700 of her constituents, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (D-Queens, Manhattan) today wrote to the Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue to find out what steps the Administration is taking to make sure that this fiasco never happens again.  The full text of the letter follows.

U.S. Rep. Maloney Fights Bush Administration Idea to Allow Slash in Social Security Benefits for the Disabled, for Widows, & for Children Who Have Lost A Parent

May 18, 2005 Press Release
 WASHINGTON, DC - New York’s disabled and those who suffer the loss of a spouse or parent would be in danger of cuts to their Social Security benefits under President Bush’s overhaul scheme, according to comments made on May 12 and 13, 2005, by the President’s own top economic advisor Allan Hubbard and by White House spokesperson Trent Duffy.

Congresswoman Maloney Hosts Queens & Manhattan Town Hall Forums on Social Security

Apr 17, 2005 Press Release
 QUEENS, NY - Today, in the auditoriums of Long Island City High School in Queens and the Simon Baruch Middle School in Manhattan, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY) spoke to almost 300 New Yorkers, detailing how the President’s scheme to privatize a large portion of Social Security funds would require major cuts in guaranteed benefits to Social Security participants, while at the same time requiring the federal government to borrow trillions of dollars just to fund the risky project. Maloney said the plan could leave seniors without security and would leave the country deeply in debt.

Rep. Maloney & Queens Seniors Discuss Pitfalls of Bush Social Security Overhaul

Feb 11, 2005 Press Release
 QUEENS, NY - Today, Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (Queens, Manhattan) spoke with Queens residents at the Sunnyside Senior Center about why the President’s proposed Social Security overhaul would be harmful for current and future retirees of New York.

Social Security Benefits Based on Race and Gender? 41 Members of Congress Ask the President to Denounce Chairman Thomas’s Plan

Jan 28, 2005 Press Release
 WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Bill Thomas (CA-22) has repeatedly broached the idea of adjusting Social Security benefits to Americans based on their race or gender - cutting payments to women because of their longer life span, for instance. As President Bush prepares his own Social Security overhaul proposal, 41 Members of Congress led by Reps. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14) and Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ-06) today urged him to publicly repudiate Chairman Thomas’s scheme, which threatens to hurt some Americans who need Social Security benefits the most (PDF of letter).