Seniors may be hearing some big proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare soon. Seniors may be hearing some big proposals to cut Social Security and Medicare soon. Congress recently was told that Social Security an ...
Category: Social Security Reform Articles
Legislative Updates: COLA’s & Medicare Premiums
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 the government spends on Social Security and Medicare. ...
Legislative Update: Social Security Trust Funds
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 programs, Social Security in particular, were stre ...
Deficit Gets Worse, Social Security Cuts Get Attention
For most retirees the average Social Security benefit of $1,100 is their main source of income. But the sluggish economy has made the federal budget deficit, including that of Social Security, balloon more rapidly than ...
Social Security Disability Close To Insolvency
An intense battle over Social Security is brewing and TSCL is gearing up for major Congressional action. Recently retired Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan waded back into the fray to tell Congress “Our choices ri ...
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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