Progress Report: Getting Congress On Board For Key Senior Issues By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant The first session of the 113th Congress has just reached the half-way mark, and already, The Senior Citizens ...
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Public Opinion Can Sway Votes In Congress!
What do you think of the Obama Administration's Immigration Amnesty actions by Executive Order? Is the President over-reaching his powers? Should changes in immigration law be left up to Congress? And overwhelming ...
Best Ways To Save: July 2013
Under 65? How The New Healthcare Law Affects You By Mary Johnson, Editor At 63, my learning-disabled brother still puts in a 40-hour work week as a welder with no plans to retire yet, but for most of his life he's ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Diabetes Supplies Delivery
Q: I'm diabetic and get my blood testing supplies via mail order. When I called to order my next shipment I was told I would have to pay the full cost of supplies and my credit card was charged. I thought Medicare cover ...
Ask the Advisor: Working on Disability
How Can My Sister's Son-In-Law Work And Claim Disability? Q: My sister's son-in-law lost his job several years ago, and not long after filed for disability. My sister says that after a recent tornado, he made "good" ...
Benefit Bulletin: July 2013
Cuts to Meals On Wheels Having "Devastating Impact" Across the country Meals on Wheels programs are reducing the number of meals delivered to low-income seniors or shutting down altogether according to a new survey. ...
Provision To Prevent Social Security Payments Based On Illegal Work In Senate Immigration Bill
TSCL Calls Seniors To Action With President Obama pushing for an immigration bill "by the end of the summer," Congress is rapidly moving major immigration reform legislation. Under the bill passed in the Senate, an es ...
Congressional Corner: An Open Letter to TSCL Petition Signers
Representative C.W. Bill Young (FL-13) Thank you for signing a petition organized by The Senior Citizens League on various issues dealing with Social Security that are important to our nation’s elderly. As a Represent ...
The Looming 20% Social Security Cut That Nobody’s Talking About
By Mary Johnson, Editor Imagine checking your bank balance and discovering your Social Security payment is 20% less than it should be. You contact the Social Security Administration only to be told that the Trust Fund ...
Chained CPI Affects More Than Just COLAs
12 Ways Seniors Would Get Less, Pay More Efforts are quietly underway to lay the groundwork for a far-reaching fiscal deal that involves Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) and Medicare benefits. White ...
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