By Mary Johnson Here’s something hard to believe, but true. Our government is paying Social Security benefits to thousands of Mexicans who don’t live in…
By John Haldi The Notch refers to the one-time, precipitous and unprecedented drop in Social Security benefits paid to people born in 1917 and the…
By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant Over the past several months many different plans and ideas have surfaced to reduce the federal deficit, including what…
By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant During our slow, arduous economic recovery that followed the financial crisis and recession of 2008 and 2009, many government…
By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) often hears from seniors who, in their advanced age, have drawn down all of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…