Tax Reform Proposal Would Get Rid Of Social Security’s Source Of Funding By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst For the first time in over thirty years, comprehensive tax reform is at the top of the congressional ...
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Benefit Bulletin: July 2017
How Capping Medicaid Would Affect Low - Income Medicare Recipients Medicaid plays an essential role for both low–income older Americans and middle-income older people who have been made poor by their health care costs ...
Proposal That Would Boost Social Security Benefits For Caregivers Strongly Supported
Women who receive Social Security benefits outnumber men who do by almost 18%, according to data from the Social Security Administration. While women tend to outlive men, the average benefit received by women is 26% low ...
New Medicare Report: “Adequate Coverage and Affordability Beyond Reach Of Many Low And Moderate Income People”
By Mary Johnson, editor The GOP’s health legislation now in the Senate includes provisions affecting almost everyone, including older people on Medicare and Medicaid. The deep cuts to Medicare and Medicaid funding in ...
GOP Obamacare Repeal Bill Gets Rocky Reception
House Republicans who squeezed through the Obamacare repeal are meeting with outrage from angry constituents. Among other things, the public, and even some Senate Republicans, have complained that there were no public h ...
How Reforming Social Security Taxes Could Help You
Much of the discussion about tax reform on Capitol Hill has focused on lowering corporate tax rates, and the taxes paid by the highest-income households. The GOP’s “Better Way” tax plan released in 2016 would affect ever ...
Hundreds Lose SS Disability Benefits In Fraud Probe
A Kentucky lawyer has pleaded guilty in an unprecedented half-a-billion dollar Social Security disability fraud scheme. An attorney specializing in handling Social Security disability claims, Eric C. Conn, caused massive ...
The COLA Was Only 0.3% This Year. Retirees Report Costs Grew By A Lot More
By Mary Johnson, editor Social Security’s annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is provided to help people maintain the buying power of their Social Security benefits as prices go up. Since the COLA was only 0.3% th ...
Benefit Bulletin: June 2017
Trump’s Budget Plan To Make America Great Again — Starve The Elderly When President Trump released his first budget recently, the public got its first glimpse of his actual budget plans to Make America Great Again. Th ...
Congressional Corner: Garamendi’s Opinion: It’s Time for Seniors to Get a Fair COLA
By Congressman John Garamendi (CA-3) Our nation’s seniors work their entire lives to earn Social Security, and they depend on Social Security for a well-earned, dignified retirement. For many, Social Security isn’t ju ...
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