Watch our new, nationally televised, Public Service Announcement called "Real Seniors, Real Concerns." Real seniors are telling the nation about the financial challenges they face in a new public service announcement ...

By Mary Johnson Now that our federal budget deficit is the only major economic indicator that’s roaring upward, Social Security benefits may be next to go through the wringer.  The policy experts are quietly considering ...

Watch our newest video featuring TSCL's Board of Trustees as they work for our benefits in our nation's Capitol. "Night in America" spotlights the plight millions of seniors are enduring as living costs rise, Soci ...

Medicare costs are continuing to escalate in 2010, but unless Congress takes immediate action, it’s all but certain that seniors won’t receive an annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to help offset the increase next y ...

More than ever, millions of seniors are struggling with higher costs, but flat (or shrinking) Social Security checks. So it makes little sense that the government decided that seniors shouldn’t receive a Social Security ...

By Mary Johnson, Social Security and Medicare Policy Analyst (March 5, 2010)  The U.S Senate recently rejected not one, but two attempts to provide a modest, one-time $250 emergency Social Security payment to seniors wh ...

The Social Security Administration has confirmed that inflation had not increased enough to pay a COLA in 2011. This makes the second year in a row without a COLA for Social Security—no COLA was paid in 2010 either.  Th ...

By Mary Johnson cash pay advance It’s official.  The Social Security Administration recently announced that fifty-three million Social Security beneficiaries won’t receive any cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2011 — t ...

The deep recession and two unprecedented years of a lack of annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are taking a huge toll on the Social Security of new retirees, even if they haven’t yet started benefits. A ground - b ...