By Mary Johnson cash pay advance It’s official. The Social Security Administration recently announced that fifty-three million Social Security beneficiaries won’t receive any cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2011 — t ...
Category: Issues
Recession, Lack Of COLAs Reduce Baby Boomers’ Social Security Benefits
The deep recession and two unprecedented years of a lack of annual cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) are taking a huge toll on the Social Security of new retirees, even if they haven’t yet started benefits. A ground - b ...
Video: You’re Not Alone
Millions of seniors are on their own, struggling to make ends meet. In "You're Not Alone," viewers see the isolation of one senior, who is far too typical of America's seniors. But there is hope. The Senior Citizens L ...
Congressional Corner: By Representative Charles Gonzalez (20th-TX)
Many seniors in our community struggle month to month to make ends meet on budgets that just can’t cover today’s high cost of living. Today’s troubled economy is leaving the elderly in a financial pinch, particularly si ...
Congress Working On Plans For Social Security and Medicare Overhaul
Bipartisan efforts are underway in both the U.S. House and Senate on serious plans to overhaul Social Security and Medicare. Recently, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (VA-7) said a “prescription” on entitlement reform ...
Notch Reform
Notch Reform The Senior Citizens League members and supporters tend to be older, less affluent seniors. They are also, to a large extent, Notch babies – those individuals who receive lower Social Security benefits bec ...
Totalization Agreement
Totalization Agreement Social Security Totalization Agreements are designed so that workers and their employers would not be subject to double taxation, owing payroll taxes to both the country in which they work, and th ...
Social Security Reform
Comprehensive Social Security Reform Long-term solvency of the Social Security program is essential. In 2010, due largely to the economic downturn and a stagnant recovery, the Social Security Trustees estimated that th ...
COLA Fairness
COLA - Cost of Living Adjustment For the first time since automatic COLAs were instituted in 1975, Social Security beneficiaries did not receive cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) in 2010 and 2011. After lobbying for a ...
COLA Fairness
COLA Fairness - TSCL strongly believes that the Social Security cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) that seniors are currently receiving does not accurately reflect how they must spend their money. Our studies and survey ...
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