Representative Tim Murphy, Ph.D. (PA-18) Milk or medicine? This unfair choice is forced upon thousands of senior citizens every day. They must choose between basic necessities like food, monthly electricity bills, d ...
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Should Social Security Continue to Pay Benefits Based On Illegal Work?
There’s been little debate over changing a provision of Social Security law that allows for payment of benefits to noncitizens based on earnings from illegal work. Should this be changed to protect Social Security? I ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: January 2013
Q: I turn 66 this year and my wife is 65. Neither one of us has started Social Security. We receive health insurance through my employer. Do we need to sign up for Medicare yet? A: It depends. If you meet the r ...
No Wonder Drug For Ailing Medicare Finances
By Mary Johnson Will 2013 be the year that Congress tells us to hold our nose and take our medicine? Because healthcare costs remain the primary driver of future government deficits. Medicare remains a target of def ...
Will 2013 Be a Year of Crisis?
COLAs Go Over The Fiscal Cliff Economic forecasts for 2013 warn of a financial crisis ahead. Nobody is feeling it more acutely than seniors living on fixed incomes. Retirees and disabled adults won’t see much of a c ...
Legislative Update: January 2013
The 113th Congress: A New Opportunity for TSCL By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Analyst After a much-anticipated election and an action-packed lame-duck session, the 113th Congress has officially begun and The Senior ...
Seniors To Get One of Lowest COLAs Ever to be Paid
Will 1.7% COLAs Become The New Norm? Food, energy, and healthcare costs are climbing, but starting in January Social Security recipients will get one of the lowest cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) ever paid — jus ...
Could “Automatic” Medicare Cuts Affect You?
By Mary Johnson Senior voters just endured a tsunami of fact checks, competing truth squads and battling claims over the candidates' plans for Medicare. But post-election reality is setting in and lame duck law ...
Fraud Concerns Grow About Obama’s Illegal Immigration Policy
Obama's new policy for illegal immigrants was recently announced and implemented without Congressional approval. Now questions are growing about the potential for widespread fraud — and with good reason, it seems. Less ...
Benefit Bulletin: November 2012
More Experts Say Oldest Seniors Need Benefit Boost —TSCL Continues Push For Notch Reform Amidst the debate over Social Security, a proposal that would benefit seniors over age 85 appears to be winning bipartisan supp ...
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