This should infuriate anyone who has worked all their lives and paid into Social Security.
Marci Rubio: βPeople work their entire lives, retire and get $800 or $1000 in SS. Then someone who just got here and doesnβt work is given $1500 a month.β https://t.co/yghfQjPTDt
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I'm seeing a lot of unfairness in South Florida. Long-term residents, some who arrived from Cuba 45 years ago, retire on Social Security checks of $800-$1000 a month after a lifetime of work. Yet, new arrivals from Cuba, sometimes just months in the country, receive $1500 monthly in benefits as refugees, even if they are able-bodied and not working. I've seen cases where these refugees then make frequent trips back to Cuba. They receive extensive government aid β Medicaid, food stamps, healthcare, and cash payments. It's frustrating to see people who have contributed to this country for decades receiving less than those who recently arrived. This disparity is unjust and needs to be addressed.
Speaker 0: Of the things I see a lot in South Florida are people that have been in this country. They may have came from Cuba Forty Five Years ago. They've worked here their entire lives. They retire. They get $800, 9 hundred dollars, a thousand dollars a month from Social Security.
And then they run into somebody who just got here from Cuba Three Months ago, is 29 years old, doesn't work, and is given $1,500 a month in benefits by our government because they're refugees. That refugee, a year later, is traveling back to Cuba Fifteen times. So you're a refugee fleeing oppression from a place that you now go back and visit 15 times the following year. And in the meantime, we're giving you Medicaid, food stamps, health care for your children, cash payments from the refugee fund. So imagine if you've been working here for forty years and your Social Security check is smaller than the benefits going to a 28 year old, Able-bodied person who just got here.
That's real. That happens. That's happening every day. That makes no sense.
