# These $90 payments from Social Security that just showed up **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [October 6, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633 "2026-10-06T23:58:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2026, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/1 "2026-10-06T23:58:41Z")
Both Mr. brown and I received today $90 each from Social Security. Googling says: “The checks, which have already hit some seniors’ bank accounts, are tied to the [Trump administration’s announcement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/10/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-announces-medicare-improvement-fund-payments-for-seniors/) that it would send checks to 20 million Medicare enrollees to lower healthcare costs.” I won’t accept bribe money originating from the orange turd. I’m sending our $180 directly to the Democratic party. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/2 "2026-10-07T00:02:19Z")
I like the cut of your jib! I’ll be doing the same. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/3 "2026-10-07T00:05:20Z")
> [@teelabrown](#): > > I won’t accept bribe money originating from the orange turd. I’m sending our $180 directly to the Democratic party. Hmm, things are a little tight right now, but I agree- at least part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/4 "2026-10-07T00:16:24Z")
That’s like, what, a 1% reduction of cost? ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/5 "2026-10-07T01:06:48Z")
Great idea! Me, too. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/6 "2026-10-07T01:43:59Z")
Respect to all who do that 👏 I’d love to see it become a trend, with everyone letting Dem Party know where it came from. And then the word getting out to El Stupido that he just added to the "lunatics’ " coffer. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2026, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/7 "2026-10-08T03:15:07Z")
I got mine today. Donated $100 to our local public library. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-90-payments-from-social-security-that-just-showed-up/1033633/8 "2026-10-09T12:40:35Z")
My wife read on Reddit somewhere that this $90 payment was actually some sort of overpayment refund that was set up during the Obama administration. She’s trying to verify that this is true but not having much luck. Has anyone else heard anything like that? It seems odd to me that they would set up a payment like that for 12-15 years in the future, since a lot of people on Social Security might not be around to collect by that time.