The number of older Americans who pay federal income tax on their Social Security benefits is rapidly growing, according to recent surveys by TSCL. Twenty-three percent of participants in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey ...
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Fact Check: Critics Argue Stimulus Checks Cause Inflation. Is This True?
A $1,400 stimulus check for each Social Security recipient is a top legislative goal for TSCL in 2024. While hundreds of thousands of older Americans have signed our petitions in support of such legislation, some critics ...
New Survey Findings: 67% Say Household Budget 10% Higher Than a Year Ago
More than two-thirds of older adults participating in TSCL’s latest Retirement Survey say their monthly budget for essential items such as housing, food, and prescription drugs was 10 percent higher than in the fall of 2 ...
December 2023
December 2023 Update ...
Lowering Drug Prices at the top of HHS Agenda this Year
The costs of prescription drugs and working to lower them will be among the top health issues facing the Biden administration in 2024, with Supreme Court activity, drugmaker lawsuits, and other hurdles expected to compli ...
The U.S. Health Care Spending Exceeds Six Countries Combined
According to a report in StatNews, “… the U.S. government spent more on health care last year than the governments of Germany, the U.K., Italy, Spain, Austria, and France combined spent to provide universal health care c ...
Medicare Transparency Bill Passes in the House
One of the few things the House of Representatives managed to accomplish in 2023 was the passage on December 11 of H.R. 5378, the Lower Costs, More Transparency Act, a bipartisan healthcare bill that would impose new tra ...
Important Legislation Congress Failed to Pass
As has become usual in recent years, Congress failed to pass the legislation needed to fund the federal government for the new fiscal year 2024. They didn’t pass much else, either. Texas Republican Rep. Chip Roy rebuked ...
Legislative Update: January/February 2024
Social Security Benefit Cuts Don’t Add Up By Daisy Brown, TSCL Legislative Liaison The claim that Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) must be cut to prevent the program’s impending bankruptcy is unli ...
Benefit Bulletin: House Hearing: Social Security Overpays Disabled Beneficiaries, Then Demands Money Back
Edward Cates, Chairman of the Board, TSCL The House Subcommittee on Social Security recently learned that about 1 million people a year have received letters from the Social Security Administration (SSA) stating that ...