Residents rally in Wilkes-Barre to protect social security benefits
WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — People concerned about keeping Social Security solvent are sounding off this weekend in Wilkes-Barre.
Dozens of community activists, union leaders, and lawmakers turned out on Saturday on Public Square for a rally called Protect Our Checks.
Several were armed with signs urging Washington to leave Social Security benefits alone.
There is currently no proposal to use social security funding for other programs, but the federal government can tap into surplus social security revenues for general government purposes.
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Protesters are saying “hands off.”
“That’s what I’m living on, and a lot of people my age and older, and we can’t see that and actually it’s money that we paid in and so for them to jeopardize money that we put in in savings in our old age, one isn’t legal, and two, it isn’t ethical,” Action Together Protester Ed Zajac told 28/22 News.
Saturday’s rally coincides with this month’s 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act during the Franklin Roosevelt Administration.
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