The big legislative health care news this week was President Trump’s call for bi-partisan legislation to lower prescription drug prices in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. In his address he commended S ...
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The Senior Citizens League Weekly Update for Week Ending January 31, 2020
The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) staff attended a hearing on Capitol Hill this week at the Senate Special Committee on Aging titled, “That’s Not the Government Calling: Protecting Seniors from the Social Security Imper ...
Majority of Retirees Think All Wages Should be Taxed for Social Security Purposes
(Washington, DC) – Eighty-three percent of retirees think Congress should modify Social Security’s financing by applying the Social Security payroll tax to all wages, according to a new survey by The Senior Citizens Leag ...
The Senior Citizens League Weekly Update for Week Ending January 24, 2020
Legislation to lower the cost of prescription drugs remains one of TSCL’s top priorities. Although the House of Representatives has passed a bill to accomplish that priority, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ...
The Senior Citizens League Weekly Update
Once again this week the impeachment of President Trump dominated the news involving Congress and Washington in general. Even so, work continued on a host of other issues, many of which are of great importance to senior ...
Majority of Retirees Think Congress Should Modify Social Security COLA
(Washington, DC) – Eighty - five percent of retirees think Congress should modify Social Security to provide a higher annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA), and they support very gradually raising payroll taxes to pay ...
The Senior Citizens League Legislative Update for Janaury 10, 2020
Because they could not reach a deal to lower prescription drug prices last year, members of Congress are feeling the pressure this year to get something done to accomplish that goal. But that runs headlong into the fact ...
The Senior Citizens League Legislative Update
The Senior Citizens League begins this update by wishing each of you the very best in this New Year. We took a break last week from publishing our update since most people's days were filled with activities more importa ...
The Senior Citizens League Weekly Update for Week Ending December 20, 2019
This week a lot of important things happened in Washington that have nothing to do with impeachment. Congress voted on funding for the federal government for the rest of the 2020, a public fight broke out between two po ...
Medicare Premiums Set To Take One Of Biggest Jumps In Years
(Washington, DC) Medicare Part B premiums are getting set to make one of the biggest jumps in 14 years, according to new analysis from The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). While the Social Security cost-of-living adjustme ...
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