While the Biden administration and other lawmakers appear to have shifted their focus from another round of stimulus payments to the battle over the infrastructure bill, some grassroots organizations are attempting to get the federal government to provide more stimulus money.
Case in point: A nonpartisan group known as The Senior Citizens League has started an effort to issue a new, $1,400 payment for retirees on Social Security, according to Yahoo.com.
The petition to Congress, which was launched in September, calls for Social Security recipients to receive a $1,400 emergency stimulus check “to cope during this unprecedented inflationary year.”
“Social Security benefits are one of the few types of income in retirement adjusted for inflation,” the petition reads. “But soaring inflation has taken a toll on household finances of retired and disabled Social Security recipients.”
According to Yahoo Finance, the petition has already received “tens of thousands of signatures.” The site also says that there is a precedence for such a payment, noting that in May 2009, in the wake of the Great Recession, $250 stimulus checks went primarily to people on Social Security as part of President Barack Obama’s Recovery Act.
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There is also a separate, unrelated Change.org petition, which is calling for $2,000 monthly recurring payments from the federal government to aide millions of Americans. Currently, that petition stands at over 2.9 million signatures, but needs 3 million to be regarded as a top campaign on the website.
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