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Newsletter: Protecting Social Security

Date: Feb. 27, 2007
Issues: Senior Citizens Entitlements and the Safety Net


Protecting Social Security

Dear Friends,

Nothing is more important than ensuring that our senior citizens are taken care of. For a long time, Social Security has helped to do just that.

I want you to know that no matter what challenges face our Social Security system, I'm committed to doing everything to ensure that it will be available to you, your children and your grandchildren. That includes opposing efforts that would weaken the system. You've paid into the system and earned every penny you receive back out of it. Congress must not take any action that would ultimately harm the people Social Security is intended to protect.

Over the last several years, I've fought to protect Social Security by:

• Strongly supporting a "lock box" for Social Security, ensuring that Social Security money was spent on Social Security and not programs and initiatives which would do little, if any, to protect seniors.

• Voting in favor of a bill that repealed the earnings limit for Social Security recipients - allowing senior citizens to work as long as they want without having their Social Security check reduced.

• Introducing legislation that would give senior citizens a choice - preventing the federal government from mandating that all Social Security checks must be sent via electronic deposit rather than through the mail as many seniors wished.

• Helping ensure that all Social Security recipients are treated equally - getting the same benefits as other retirees with similar work and earnings records.

Securing Social Security for today and tomorrow is about doing what's right. It's as simple as that. My job is to make sure that continues.

If you have any questions or concerns about Social Security, I want to hear from you. Your opinion matters.

To learn more about this or other issues, please visit my website at http://aderholt.house.gov. There you can learn more about what is happening in Washington as well as contact my office via email.

Please feel free to forward this newsletter to your friends and family who live in the 4th District as well.

Sincerely,

Congressman Robert Aderholt
Alabama's Fourth District

http://aderholt.houseenews.net//common/mailings/?id=26

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