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Mark Pocan: “By law, as of 2015, if someone would be 115 years old, you…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Mark Pocan Discusses Impact of Proposed Health Care and Social Program Cuts in Wisconsin Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 45:56

… put a lot of time breaking into 10 year increments all the way up to 300 something years. Well, that's been disproven by two different Inspector General reports. In fact, By law, as of 2015, if someone would be 115 years old, you can't get a payment, no checks have gone out. So that was just pure bs, but intentionally put out there to soften going after Social Security. So good news is it's not in the big beautiful bill for Millionaire for Billionaires. (45:56–46:07)

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Asserts that no Social Security payments are made to individuals over 115 years old since 2015.

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