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Carolyn Antell’s interior design business couldn’t survive the 2008-09 Great Recession, and at 62 she didn’t have time to wait for a rebound.
As a second career, she went back to school, earned certified nursing assistant credentials and started a private care company helping older adults. After four years on a waiting list, she was able to move into subsidized housing.
Her fixed rent and Social Security allow her to pay for a mobile phone, cat food and repairs to her 2009 Subaru.
In the past four months, Antell says, she’s been bombarded with stories about the Social Security Administration — staff cuts at field offices, phone identification being taken away, then rolled back.
She wants her friends and her state’s representatives to know how crucial it is to people like her who can’t work enough to afford rent on their own. Antell estimates she makes about 25 calls a day.
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