Congress managed to pass a short-term fix to prevent a 19% benefit cut that was due to hit disabled Social Security beneficiaries by the end of this year. The legislation heads off the cut by temporarily transferring som ...
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Majority Of Retirees Say COLA Should Be Top Priority For Congress
(Washington, DC) – Providing a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2016 should be the next top priority for Congress, according to a new poll of retirees released today by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). When asked, “ ...
Majority Of Retirees Say Fixing Social Secuirty Should Be Top Priority For Congress
(Washington, DC) – Providing a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2016 should be the next top priority for Congress, according to a new poll of retirees released today by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). When asked, “ ...
How Can Congress Boost Benefits If Social Security Is Running Out?
Mary Johnson, Editor The question came between bites of Waldorf salad and barbecue at a recent church luncheon here in Barboursville, Virginia. How can Congress give people higher Cost-of-Living Adjustments (COLAs) an ...
What’s Your 2016 Social Security Check Missing? About $153
The Social Security Administration recently announced that there would be no Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) increase for next year. The news is causing big worries for more than 70 million Social Security retirees and ...
What Happened To Our $2.8 Trillion Social Security Trust Fund?
Looming Debt Limit Stand Off Could Threaten Your Social Security Richard Chamberlin is an 87 - year - old with a mission. A retired Methodist minister living in Lancaster, Kentucky, Chamberlin is concerned about the ...
Why The Social Security Disability Insurance Program Is Going Broke
"Weakness" in the Social Security Administration's policies and procedures is to blame for billions in overpayments of disability insurance benefits, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). More tha ...
Nearly Half Of Social Security Disability Recipients “Overpaid”
Almost half the people receiving Social Security disability benefits over the past ten years were overpaid, according to a new report from the Social Security Administration’s Inspector General. The finding is raising ne ...
How Older Americans Would Fix Social Security
Fixing Social Security doesn’t necessarily have to require slashing benefits, according to the findings of TSCL’s annual 2015 Senior Survey. Almost 1,200 survey participants weighed in on a range of proposals that would ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2015
Does Social Security Provide Enough Income For Today’s Retirees? More people than ever face a lower standard of living in retirement, according to a growing number of troubling new studies. There are several reasons w ...
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