Hubbard: Bush Plan May Shrink Survivor Aid

[UpInArms]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/05/11/national/w163403D69.DTL

President Bush's preferred approach for Social Security would mean smaller survivor benefits for middle and upper-income children and widows than they are now promised, a top administration official said Wednesday.

At the same time, Bush envisions no changes in the benefit system for the disabled, said Allan Hubbard, chairman of the National Economic Council and the administration's point man on Social Security.

In addition to retirees, Social Security provides benefits to the disabled as well as to children under 18 who have lost a working parent. Surviving spouses can also qualify for a benefit until the child turns 16.

"The president is committed to making sure the disabled are taken care of just as they've been promised they'd be taken care of," Hubbard said in an interview with The Associated Press in his White House office. Bush also believes the approach he's talked about "will provide adequate and reasonable benefits for beneficiaries, which includes survivors, widows and the retirees," he said.

Other administration officials at the interview were more specific in saying the changes Bush has in mind would apply to surviving children and widows.

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Why does this buffoon always need an interpreter? :banghead: :argh:

[sam sarrha]

1. Because he is a wet brain alcoholic burnt out drug addict moron.. that has

spent more than half his adult life F'n drunk and/or stoned and never had a real job or earned an honest living.

read the link im my signature by Katherine van Wormer

and go to http://www.renanabrooks.com she is a psychiatrist in DC that does psycholigical profiles on politicians.. click on the subjects in the orange box..