Election of this option would trigger a 5.75-percent reduction in their monthly benefit amount through the period of disability benefit receipt.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): SSA confirms Hassan jointly introduced a proposal allowing disabled workers to exchange the five-month waiting period for reduced monthly disability benefits. Current-law benefits would remain available to those declining the option. This qualifies her opposition to benefit reductions, but does not establish an enacted cut or definitive abandonment of the commitment.
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POINT OF ORDER AGAINST CUTTING SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS FOR SENIORS, INCREASING WAIT TIMES FOR SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS, OR CLOSING SOCIAL SECURITY OFFICES.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Hassan submitted amendment 1899 to create a Senate point of order against Social Security benefit cuts, delays, and office closures, waivable by three-fifths of senators. Amendment 1898 similarly addressed Medicare benefit cuts. The record documents submission and text, not adoption or enactment; concrete effort is established while delivery remains unresolved.
Again, we urge you to immediately cease any plans to close or sell the Social Security office in Littleton, New Hampshire
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Hassan and Shaheen formally urged federal officials to halt the Littleton office closure, citing threats to access and uninterrupted delivery of benefits. This documents later-term opposition to administrative reductions in service; the letter does not establish that officials reversed the closure plan.
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Hassan (D-NH), Yea
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): During her first Senate term, Hassan voted to advance Sanders amendment 19 opposing cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. The required three-fifths waiver failed 49–49. This proves concrete opposition to cuts but did not establish the proposed protection.
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Hassan (D-NH), Yea
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Hassan voted to advance Hirono amendment 20 protecting Medicare and Medicaid. The waiver failed 49–47 because three-fifths support was required. Read with the amendment’s documented anti-voucher purpose, this establishes first-term effort without adoption of the protection.
makes it more difficult to privatize Medicare or turn it into a voucher program
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Hassan’s office documented her cosponsorship of Hirono’s budget amendment specifically opposing Medicare privatization and vouchers, alongside Sanders’s amendment opposing benefit cuts. This identifies substantive first-term legislative effort; it does not prove enactment or completed delivery.