What happened to no tax on social security benefits? This tax plan was pushed through in a different legislative process. Trump has long promised it.

President Donald Trump's head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), Frank Bisignano, admitted in a town hall with agency managers this week that he was not looking for a job at the time and that he had searched Google to learn what exactly the position entails.

In 1983, with Social Security's asset reserves virtually exhausted, a bipartisan Congress passed, and then-President Ronald Reagan signed, the Social Security Amendments of 1983 into law. This amendment gradually increased the full retirement age and payroll taxation on working Americans, as well as introduced the utterly despised tax on benefits.

The apparent fact that the new Social Security commissioner, up until recently, had no idea what his job entailed does not inspire confidence.

The recent legislative move to increase the standard deduction for seniors under Trump's administration aims to provide significant tax relief to retirees, particularly benefiting those with lower incomes.

Newly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him.

The chaos at the the agency began shortly after acting commissioner Michelle King stepped down in February, a move that came after DOGE sought access to Social Security recipient information. That prompted a lawsuit by labor unions and retirees, who asked a federal court to issue an emergency order limiting DOGE’s access to Social Security data.

A March executive order from President Donald Trump, set to take effect this fall, directs the Secretary of the Treasury to "cease issuing paper checks for all Federal disbursements inclusive of intragovernmental payments,