Social Security Benefits Slowed Amid COVID-19 Deaths Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL The rate of growth in the number of older Americans who receive Social Security has slowed sharply recently, and the dr ...
Legislative Update: June 2021
Congress May Consider Ending Two Provisions That Reduce Social Security Benefits of Public Employees Shannon Benton, Executive Director Two provisions of law, known as the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and G ...
Benefit Bulletin: June 2021
As COVID-19 Cases and Deaths In Long-Term Care Facilities Drop, Families Look Forward To Changing Visitation Requirements By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL For more than a year, assisted living facilitie ...
How Much Income Do Retirees Actually Have? Is It Enough?
How has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated concerns among older Americans about maintaining a secure retirement? Social Security alone was never originally intended to be the only source of income in retirement. It is f ...
Did Your Retirement Savings Recover by the End of 2020?
How is the pandemic-caused recession affecting retirement savings? Of those who said they have retirement accounts, 48% said that their retirement savings had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels by December 31, 2020, i ...
Ask the Advisor: March 2021
Will Stimulus Payments Make My Social Security Benefits Taxable? Q: How will the stimulus payments that we received affect our income taxes for 2020? Will this increase the amount of Social Security benefits subject ...
Where Are All The COVID-19 Vaccines?
By Mary Johnson, editor All together now: Raise your hand if you have had trouble figuring out if, when, or where you would get a COVID-19 vaccine! If you have already gotten yours — congratulations! In my rura ...
Benefit Bulletin: January 2021
Congress May Be Politically Divided, But Large Majority of Retirees Support These Five Important Issues By Rick Delaney, Chairman of the Board, TSCL The year 2020 will go down in history as one of our nation’s most ...
How Has The Recession Affected Funding For Your Social Security and Medicare Benefits?
The Senior Citizens League is closely paying attention to recent reports from the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, and economic policy groups such as the Bipartisan Policy Center. These reports confirm that the insolve ...
Q & A: June 2020
Should She Sign Up For Unemployment or Disability? Q: My mom has Parkinson’s disease, but was still working until the coronavirus forced her company to shut down indefinitely. She has applied for partial unemployment ...
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