What Caused The Social Security Notch? The Social Security Notch is the unexpectedly steep drop in benefits that affects people born from 1917 through 1926. This generation of seniors receives lower benefits than othe ...
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Legislative Update: June 2013
Social Security's Solvency Can Be Improved Without Cutting Benefits By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Since its inception in 1937, Social Security has been financed by a dedicated payroll tax on all earnings ...
Congressional Corner: The Promise Behind Medicare
By Representative Tim Bishop (NY-1) Social Security has been the bedrock of retirement security for America's seniors since the program was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935. With the creation of ...
Social Security & Medicare Questions: Prescription Drugs Going Generic
Q: My brand name drug is supposed to go generic this year. Will my drug plan cover the generic and if so will I be notified? A: Sixteen major brand name drugs are going generic this year and another 25 are in the gene ...
“Path to Citizenship” For Illegal Immigrants and Your Social Security”
State Department Suppresses Social Security Totalization Documents Major immigration legislation that provides a path to citizenship and, with it, access to Social Security is moving in both the Senate and the House. ...
Two Social Security Reforms That Seniors Strongly Support
Two Social Security Reforms That Seniors Strongly Support Alexandria, VA (June 17, 2013) Seniors are closely following the debate over Social Security, and a new survey indicates strong support for two major changes ...
Are Deeper Cuts Coming? — How Much Would You Lose?
Most analysts believe that switching to a more – stingy measure of inflation to determine annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) will form a key provision to larger government-wide deficit reduction legislation. The i ...
Major Immigration Reform Legislation Moving in Congress
Congress is coming together on immigration legislation that would provide work authorization and access to Social Security numbers to millions of immigrants who worked here illegally. A new TSCL research report based on ...
Medicare Fraud Program Cut—Congress Considers Higher Medicare Costs For Seniors
By Mary Johnson, Editor Medicare thieves are robbing the program by as much as $60 billion a year. But that hasn't stopped recent automatic Medicare cuts from slashing the very program established to protect scarce Me ...
Could Your Benefits Be Notched?
The Notch Fairness Act Introduced in the House and Senate Are you at risk of a notch in your Social Security benefits? A "notch" refers to inequality in benefits between people who are close in age and have similar ea ...
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