Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law
The Social Security Administration has sent a misleading email to beneficiaries stating President Donald Trump's sweeping tax-cuts and spending law eliminates taxes on Social Security benefits for most recipients.
The Trump package does, however, include a temporary tax deduction of up to $6,000 for seniors, ages 65 and older, and $12,000 for married seniors. Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers argued last month that nearly nine in 10 seniors would not pay any federal taxes on their Social Security benefits because the new deduction would eliminate their tax burden.
“Under the One Big Beautiful Bill, 51.4 million seniors — 88% of all seniors receiving Social Security income — will pay no tax on their Social Security,” the council wrote.
"This email went to every Social Security subscriber and every word of it is a lie. Social Security benefits are still taxed. This big, ugly bill doesn’t change that," New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, the top Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote on X. "It’s disturbing to see Trump hijack a public institution to push blatant misinformation."
Jeff Nesbit, a former top Social Security Administration official during the Biden administration, said the political emails were highly unusual, slamming them as "unbelievable" and "unconscionable."
"I was deputy commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Appointed by President Biden. The agency has never issued such a blatant political statement," Nesbit, who also served in the George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, posted on X. "The fact that Trump and his minion running SSA has done this is unconscionable."
Social Security Administration sends misleading email lauding Trump's new tax cuts law
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