The Social Security and Medicare trustees recently released their annual reports amidst controversy over the numbers. The Social Security trustees say that program financing is eroding faster than anticipated, and the di ...
Category: Social Security Reform Articles
Thieves Stealing Social Security Disability Benefits While Insolvency Looms
With the help of his now deceased mother, Anthony George obtained a second Social Security Number under the fictitious name of Sonny Fisher in 1982. Using his fake identity, in 1993 he applied for disability benefits und ...
Cost Of Social Security Benefits Based On Illegal Work?
New TSCL Report: $994.8 Billion in Wages In SSA’s Earnings Suspense File While employment plunged at the height of the recession in 2009, new data from the Social Security Administration (SSA) suggests that millions o ...
Congressional Corner: Promises Made To Seniors Must Be Kept
By Representative Bill Posey (FL-15) Most seniors have spent their entire lives paying into a system that guarantees Social Security and Medicare benefits at retirement age, and the federal government must honor that ...
Will Your Social Security Benefits Last As Long As You Do?
TSCL Believes Benefits At Stake The amount of money that the federal government owes to its creditors — including the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds — is now estimated to be as big as the entire U.S. economy ...
Social Security Giving Out SSNs To ID Thieves
Why risk stealing a Social Security Number when you can get a document confirming you have the real thing directly from the Social Security Administration (SSA)? Some conniving identity thieves appear to be going directl ...
Congressional Corner: The Payroll Tax Cut’s Not The Problem – Privatization Is
The following does not necessarily reflect the views of The Senior Citizens League. By Representative Mike Doyle (PA-14) As Congress returns to work, it begins another debate over the Social Security payroll tax – ...
Let’s End The Social Security Payroll Tax Cut
By Mary Johnson The Social Security Trust Fund that covers disability benefits is now about five years from running out of money. The Trust Fund that covers retirement also is in deficit and paying out more in benefi ...
Super Committee Plan To Reduce Deficit Due By Thanksgiving
TSCL Heads to Hill Fighting Social Security Cuts With 692,164 Signatures As the 12-member Congressional “Super Committee” readies a plan for release by Thanksgiving to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillio ...
Debt Limit Showdown: Government Nearly Defaults On Social Security Payments
Social Security and Medicare narrowly escaped the bullet, temporarily at least, during the recent battle over lifting the nation’s borrowing limit. Seniors received their Social Security payments on time and Medicare cl ...
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