📋 Social Security Is Vital to Families Like These (AARP Article)

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FROM THE ARTICLE.

How Social Security Lifts Families Financially Across Generations.

The program reflects core American values, experts say.

By Deirdre Shesgreen, AARP. Published August 05, 2025.

When Phyllis Bermudez goes grocery shopping, she puts a few of the pricier items, like eggs and bacon, at the back of her cart. Then she waits for the cashier to start tallying things up before determining if she has to put anything back.

At 77, the Queens, New York, resident lives frugally but comfortably on her monthly Social Security benefit, a bit of retirement savings and a small pension. That nest egg did not come easily.

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https://www.aarp.org/social-security/ssa-helps-bermudez-family/

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I grew up with a mother who used a Grocery List & Budgets. She was a homemaker, my dad an engineer who was paid a salary monthly. There was NO "guessing" with her. She KNEW what she could SPEND once a month (we had a HUGE freezer) and it LASTED all month. I am doing the same with my Monthly Retirement Social Security. Lol, yes I get "tempted" every Monday (small refrigerator in Studio Apt) I food shop at Walmart. But as I AGE, I have learn't to "stick to" my Grocery List. Yes, they go up on PRICES at times = time to "readjust" my list as needed.