GOP blocks legislation to award seniors $250...

Take it from someone who is living on a fixed income. That 250 dollars should be meant to help cover the costs of medical expenses, which for older citizens, it would. They are at the point now that they have to make the decision, "Do I pay for medicine to stay alive, or do I pay for electricity/fuel to stay worm while I die?" My medical costs for medicare are going up by 65 bucks a month (because I elected to get a supplemental plan) and I would have been able to do that if it had not been for my VA benefits getting raise because of my service-connected disabilities. Most seniors can't afford that. Yeah, the 250 would help them.

But you look at the ones who just sit back and "use" the system. Odds are that they don't get medicare because they don't want to pay the medicare premium, which, right now without the supplemental, take up almost 10% of my check. I took the supplemental out of pure necessity because of my failing health. It offers no deductible for a hospital stay and I now only pay 10 dollars per dr. visit(20 outside the network) I kinda agree with r13 on this. That 250 could really help most of the seniors here.

[QUOTE=Rocky;1848883 how is a ONE time payment going to help? we saw that it wouldnt do anything good from the one time payment/tax breaks we got.[/QUOTE]

I think you're missing the whole point of it. They aren't getting their annual COL raise this year, that check would offset that(equals 20+ more per month) and have them break even at least. How anyone would be against this is beyond me. And if you got the breaks last year, you're getting them and more this coming year and the year after. Can't bitch about taxes going up one minute, but act ungrateful when you're getting a big cut elsewhere.

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Originally Posted by Rocky

no, what we need to do is get the deadbeats that are getting benefits that dont need it off of the system so that the seniors who are suffering can get the money they deserve from it. how is a ONE time payment going to help? we saw that it wouldnt do anything good from the one time payment/tax breaks we got.

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For my part the devil can have the drones- I just have a hard time cutting on a seventy-something couple that worked for 30 years each.

[QUOTE=R13;1848957]I think you're missing the whole point of it. They aren't getting their annual COL raise this yearQUOTE]

got ya.