By Mary Johnson, editor Roughly 27% of older single women are at high risk of living in poverty, because they have little other income to augment their Social Security benefits. Single women have it worse in retireme ...
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Benefit Bulletin: January 2017
Congress, Keep Your Hands Out Of Our Pockets! In today’s climate of toxic partisanship, it’s natural to wonder whether polls and surveys have any real effect on how Congress votes. But your opinion counts a lot more ...
Legislative Update January 2017
How TSCL Is Working For Older Americans By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst After November’s highly anticipated election and an active “lame duck” session on Capitol Hill, the 115th Congress has officially beg ...
Q & A: January 2017
Q: If I start Social Security this year how much am I allowed to earn? I’ll turn age 66 in November. I’m currently working in a job that pays $52,000 per year plus health insurance. A: The answer depends upon whet ...
0.3% COLA Lowest Ever Paid
TSCL Pushes For Emergency COLA After a year without a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), Social Security beneficiaries are finally getting a boost in January. But the increase, if it can be called that, is so small th ...
High Drug Prices A Major Issue For The Next Congress
The EpiPen, the latest example in extreme drug price hikes, has not only led to Congressional hearings and outrage over price gouging, but is raising new questions as to why so many older adults are getting prescriptions ...
How Would Raising the Eligibility Age For Medicare Affect Medicare’s Financing and You?
By Mary Johnson, editor Raising the age at which people become eligible for Medicare has been proposed as a way of reducing future government spending on Medicare. The most widely - discussed option would gradually i ...
Benefit Bulletin: December 2016
What Social Security Fails To Tell You Can Cost You Dearly TSCL hears from people every day about the adequacy of their benefits. People who began collecting benefits at 62 frequently tell us they were unaware of the ...
Legislative Update: December 2016
Join the Effort to Pass an Emergency COLA By Jessie Gibbons, Senior Policy Analyst What has existing without an annual cost-of-living adjustment been like for retirees? Last year Alan of Nevada told us, “No COLA m ...
Congressional Corner: Washington Should Be Talking About Protecting And Expanding Social Security – Not Cutting It!
By Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA) Our nation faces an urgent crisis: as middle-class families increasingly are squeezed by stagnant wages and rising costs, the dream of a secure retirement is slipping away. At a tim ...
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