“Chaining” COLAs Still Under Consideration By Mary Johnson The past two years without a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) felt like the government clamped a lid on benefits. Now a Congressional debt reduction committee ...

Under growing pressure to reduce the federal deficit, the prospect of major Social Security and Medicare cuts is the greatest it’s been in almost three decades. The recent debt limit deal calls for a bipartisan committe ...

With deficit reduction negotiations running into the federal debt limit deadline, cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) cuts remain on a short list of dwindling options for Congressional leaders and the White House. With ...

Alexandria, VA (June 14, 2011) Cost-of-living-adjustments (COLAs) are "overpaying" Social Security recipients, and the government needs to switch to an "improved" method of measuring inflation that will give them a "smal ...

By Mary Johnson Your cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) “overpays” you. Yes, that is an outrageous statement — especially since you haven’t gotten a COLA boost for two years. Nevertheless, calling it “The Moment of Trut ...

There’s been a remarkable increase in the number of bankruptcy petitions filed by seniors, age 50 and older, in recent years. And older filers are beginning to represent a larger percentage of those filing for bankruptc ...

Housing, gasoline, food, healthcare — you name it, costs are taking some of the biggest jumps in years.  In virtually every category, prices are on the way up at the very same time seniors are least prepared to handle th ...

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