Complications of the U.S. Postal Service may affect some people who still receive Social Security checks by mail.
As voters worried about the state of USPS operations and funding for the November election, some politicians and journalists noticed that U.S. citizens still relied on the service to provide physical checks for Social Security.
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More than 71 million Social Security and Supplemental Security beneficiaries, or 98.8% of total Social Security and SSI beneficiaries, receive their payments “electronically per month,” a Social Security Administration spokesman told Fox News.
The administration “sends out nearly 850,000 paper checks (1.2 percent) per month. The electronic payments consist of direct debit and direct express debit cards,” the spokesman said.
A USPS mail carrier runs through heavy rain as Tropical Storm Fay sweeps across the densely populated northeastern United States in Jersey City, New Jersey, July 10, 2020. (REUTERS / Mike Segar)
The U.S. Treasury required all new Social Security recipients to sign up for electronic payments in March 2013 in an effort to move away from paper checks.
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Former President Barack Obama and former presidential candidate sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Tweeted Monday about the importance of the USPS.
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“Everyone depends on the USPS. Seniors for their social security, veterans for their regulations, small businesses trying to keep their doors open. They can not be a collateral damage to an administration that is more concerned with suppressing the. vote then suppress a virus, “Obama said tweeted.
He added that Americans with the option to vote early by mail should do so.
Sanders equal sei that during the COVID-19 pandemic, “millions rely on their medicines and social security checks to arrive on time. Trump’s attack on the post office is truly a matter of life and death. We will stand up, fight back and protect our Post Office. “
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy will testify Friday before the House of Representatives, and next Monday before the House of Representatives, along with the Chairman of the Board of Governors.
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Democrats and some Republicans say the actions of the new postmaster general, a Trump ally and a major Republican donor, endanger millions of Americans who rely on the post office to obtain prescription drugs and other necessities, including an expected turnout in post-in to vote this fall.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Calls the House back in session on the postal service crisis, and puts a political showdown amid growing concerns among Democrats that the Trump White House is trying to undermine the agency for the election.
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Pelosi cut summer recess from lawmakers with an expected vote Saturday on legislation that would ban changes at the bureau. The package will also include $ 25 billion for the transfer of the Postal Service, which will continue with financial losses.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
