The White House on Tuesday rebutted reports that the Trump administration is preparing a plan that would make it more difficult for older people to qualify for Social Security disability payments.
The Washington Post on Monday, citing people it said were familiar with the plans, said the administration is weighing a proposal that would remove age as a factor to determine an individual’s capacity to work.
When asked about the claim, a White House spokesperson said that there are no such plans as described in the newspaper’s article.
“President [Donald] Trump will always protect and defend Social Security for American citizens. The only policy change to Social Security is President Trump’s working families tax cut legislation that eliminated taxation of Social Security for almost all beneficiaries—which every single Democrat voted against,” spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement to The Epoch Times on Tuesday….