TSCL Fighting To Ban Social Security For Illegal Work Immigration proposals that stalled a year ago are coming back to life. If allowed to gain "traction," an estimated 10 million illegal immigrants who are working in ...
Daily Archives: October 5, 2011
TSCL Petitions Congress For “Redress Of Grievances”
Driven by public outrage over the flow of illegal immigrants across the borders, Congress is moving on controversial immigration legislation. Late last year, the House passed legislation that would require employers ...
U.S.-Mexico Totalization Agreement Raises Questions
TSCL's review of the Totalization Agreement and related documents raises a number of significant questions. For example, no new estimates of the cost of the agreement to the Social Security Trust Fund were released ...
Legal Loophole Allows Benefits Based On Illegal Work
A loop-hole in current Social Security law could allow millions of Mexican workers and their dependents to eventually collect Social Security benefits for earnings while working under fraudulent, or non-work-authoriz ...
TSCL Makes Copy Of Totalization Agreement Available To Congress
The release of the Totalization Agreement with Mexico took more than three years of persistent requests on the part of TSCL including filing under the Freedom of Information Act. Even Members of Congress had not bee ...
Congressional Corner – Totalization, Amnesty, & Illegal Immigration’s Drain On The Social Security
By Representative Pete Sessions (TX) America's immigration policy may make a dramatic shift in the coming months. According to press reports, the new Congressional leadership may push for an immigration plan that grants ...
Government Turns Over Copy Of Totalization Agreement With Mexico
After repeated refusals over three and a half years, the federal government has released to TREA Senior Citizens League (TSCL) the first known public copy of the Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico. The S ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions July 2011
Q: Two years ago I lost my job and only found part time work since then. I’m having trouble covering all my expenses. My ex-spouse recently passed away. I was married to him for more than 13 years and never re-married ...
Ask The Advisor: July 2011
Q: Why has the amount of Social Security payroll tax that’s withheld from earnings been reduced? If Social Security is running a deficit, how will decreasing the amount being paid in help? Won’t it just make it worse? ...
Ask The Advisor: June 2011
Q: The best way to help Social Security and Medicare is get people off the rolls who don't belong there — the non-citizens who have come here illegally, and their dependents who have never paid into Social Security. W ...