Social Security
Letter from Big Sky 55+ Board Chair Terry Minow to Tim Sheehy regarding dangerous disinformation in his campaign ad.
Billings Gazette, August 27, 2024
"Big Sky 55+ respectfully calls on you to immediately cease and desist airing this dangerous misinformation. Thousands of Montanans rely on Social Security for all or a significant portion of their income. The gross misrepresentations put forth in your ad play political games with their livelihoods and their sense of well being. It is reckless and irresponsible to distress and scare Montanans with patently false information that will bring them anxiety, worry and sleepless nights." Read the full story here in the Billings Gazette or here on our website.
July 2024 Big Sky 55+ Op-Ed: Conventional wisdom is just plain wrong on Social Security
"If you repeat something that is just plain wrong often enough, people begin to believe it. The fiscal foundations and future of Social Security, so important to so many of us, have been subject to a blizzard of misinformation."
Click here to read the full op-ed and learn truths about Social Security.
Factsheet: Social Security in Montana
Click here to view Montana-specific facts about Social Security.
Social Security Whistle Stop Tour
July 29-August 2, 2024
Big Sky 55+ hosted national Social Security expert, Alex Lawson, as Alex toured Montana to expose myths and zombie lies about Social Security.
Video: Billings Whistle Stop recording 2024
Slide Presentation from Alex's Whistle Stop presentations
Social Security Press Briefing, August 1, 2024
(thank you to Montana PBS for providing this video)
Articles
"Social Security Isn’t Safe Anymore — McCarthy Claims Debt Ceiling Raise ‘Isn’t the End’" by Vance Cariaga, Yahoo Finance, June 5, 2023
"With no default imminent, Social Security recipients don’t have to stress about their benefits being cut or delayed — at least for now. Longer term, however, there’s still a chance that lawmakers will target Social Security for cuts. That possibility was raised by U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), the key Republican player in debt ceiling negotiations with Biden." Read full article here.