Social Security drops plan that could have cut benefits for older Americans: Report

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00:00A major reversal from the Social Security Administration to tell you about,

00:07and one that could spare hundreds of thousands of older Americans from losing disability benefits.

00:12The agency is abandoning plans to rewrite how disability claims are judged

00:17after a wave of backlash that reached all the way to the Trump White House.

00:21That's according to new reporting from The Washington Post.

00:23At the center of it, an effort to remove age as a factor in deciding whether someone can still work.

00:30Advocates warned it would hit people over 50 the hardest, the very group the program was designed to protect.

00:36That proposal was just days away from being published,

00:39but The Post reports that SSA Commissioner Frank Bonsignano has pulled the plug,

00:45telling disability advocates the rule is not moving forward.

00:48Politically, too, this was becoming a problem.

00:50Cutting disability rules would have undercut President Trump's repeated promise not to touch Social Security.

00:57For now, the agency is not commenting, but advocates are calling this a relief for older Americans

01:02who depend on these benefits just to stay afloat.