Social Security Works says Collins wants seniors to keep working instead of drawing Social Security
Social Security WorksRetirement-security advocacy group, posting on its official X account
Social Security Works posted that Collins said seniors need to get off Social Security and get back into the workforce, and wrote that Republicans want people to "work until you die." The post adopts the same reading of the clip that the Ossoff advertisement uses.
Responding to
Mike Collins wants to push Social Security beneficiaries off the program.
“SHAME: Mike Collins says seniors need to “get off Social Security [and] get back into the workforce””
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Where this statement fits
Did Jon Ossoff’s Social Security ad fairly represent Mike Collins’s radio interview?
Jon Ossoff’s campaign ran an ad using Mike Collins’s words “get off of Social Security, get back into the workforce” to say Collins wanted to push beneficiaries off Social Security. Collins’s campaign said he misspoke and meant Medicaid; Ossoff’s campaign said the ad fairly reflected Collins’s support for pressuring beneficiaries into work. The full radio interview contains the surrounding discussion of tax cuts, Medicaid, Social Security, and work incentives.
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About this source
A post on the organization's official X account. The bracketed words are the organization's edit of Collins's 2025 radio remark; the full interview also mentioned Medicaid and tax incentives. The post states the organization's reading, which the Collins campaign disputes.
Original post
About this source
Part of a three-post thread on the organization's official X account. The thread opened with an image and the line "GA SENATE CANDIDATE MIKE COLLINS SAYS SENIORS NEED TO GET OFF SOCIAL SECURITY AND GET BACK TO WORK." The bracketed words are the organization's edit; Collins's recorded answer also mentioned Medicaid and tax incentives.
Before the quotation
The organization had posted about the same remark the day before, in a September 11 thread that quoted Collins as saying "[Old people need to] get off Social Security [and] get back into the workforce."
After the quotation
The post continued that Trump had "sabotaged Social Security" with red tape and that "NOW REPUBLICANS WANT YOU TO WORK UNTIL YOU DIE." The bracketed words in the post are the organization's edits; Collins's full answer also mentioned Medicaid.
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Why this label?
The case asks whether the Ossoff advertisement fairly represented Collins's radio interview. Social Security Works repeats the advertisement's reading, that Collins was telling seniors to leave Social Security and work, which supports the characterization under scrutiny; we labeled it Defended or excused, as with the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare in this case. Condemned is the closest competing label, but the criticism is aimed at Collins rather than at the advertisement's use of his words. Evidence level: the organization's own post.
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