Stimulus checks for Social Security recipients: Senior Citizens League petitions for $1,400 payments

Struggling Americans and progressive lawmakers alike have been advocating for the fourth round of stimulus checks for months now, as the COVID-19 pandemic surges.

This is all the while the American Rescue Plan has offered economic benefits to key demographics a.k.a. stimulus checks to homeowners and struggling renters, and the child tax credit to parents.

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Though, there’s one demographic that is also in need that many argue is being overlooked — Social Security recipients. Hence, the Senior Citizens League is campaigning with an online petition for $1,400 checks to be deposited to Social Security recipients.

“Social Security benefits are one of the few types of income in retirement adjusted for inflation,” the petition states. “But soaring inflation has taken a toll on household finances of retired and disabled Social Security recipients.”

The petition adds:

“2021 Social Security benefits increased by just 1.3 percent raising the average benefit by only about $20 a month. But about 86 percent of Social Security recipients surveyed say their expenses increased by much more than that amount,” the petition noted before urging Congress to support an “emergency $1,400 stimulus check for Social Security recipients.”

The call for these stimulus checks comes at a time when the Senior Citizens League says the expenses of Social Security recipients are growing.

The petition also comes during a time when it’s being reported Social Security benefits are in bad shape, while retirees may reportedly see a 22% cut in Social Security benefits by 2034.

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