I've read stories of retired employees in your mom's situation who starved to death when their city pension went bankrupt. This is a thing... I've had to correc

I've read stories of retired employees in your mom's situation who starved to death when their city pension went bankrupt. This is a thing... I've had to correct a lot of people's notions that when people bitch about public pensions, the people who worked under those public pensions have no fallback. At this point, the person says "what about SS?" Me, "um no, they aren't eligible." I'll try to find the story and post. I came across the story shortly after the 2008 crisis.