By Mary Johnson Here's a stark finding — 44% of seniors responding to TSCL's 2014 Annual Senior Survey say they spend more than one-third of their Social Security benefits on healthcare costs. Included in that number ...
Category: Social Security Reform Articles
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Seniors Reject Retirement Trust Fund Borrowing As Disability Fix By Mary Johnson, editor According to the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security Disability program will be fully insolvent by 2017, but so ...
Legislative Update: May 2014
Is June The "Sweet Spot" For Immigration Reform? By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Last June, lawmakers in the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform package that totaled 1,200 pages and laid out a p ...
Is Growth in Social Security Disability Due to Aging Baby Boomers or Scam?
The Social Security Disability Trust Fund (SSDI) is rapidly closing in on becoming the first of the two Social Security Trust Funds to become fully insolvent. The disability trust fund, which is separate from the one th ...
Social Security Pays Benefits Based On Work Under Fraudulent SSNs – Immigration Reform Could Add Billions In Long-Term Costs Based On Illegal Work
Alexandria, VA: It sounds screwy, but it's current U.S. government policy. Undocumented immigrants can become entitled to benefits based on the jobs worked under fraudulent Social Security numbers. The number they're wo ...
Congressional Corner: Let’s Repeal The Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset
By Representative Rodney Davis (IL-13) A 2009 study placed American students 25th out of 34 countries in math and science. We were behind nations like China, South Korea, Hong Kong and others. As we work to improve ou ...
Seniors to Congress: Don’t Pay Social Security Based On Illegal Work!
Alexandria, VA (July 15, 2013) When unauthorized immigrants work under phony Social Security numbers, what happens to their prior earnings’ records when their legal status changes? The question is important because ea ...
The Looming 20% Social Security Cut That Nobody’s Talking About
By Mary Johnson, Editor Imagine checking your bank balance and discovering your Social Security payment is 20% less than it should be. You contact the Social Security Administration only to be told that the Trust Fund ...
Legislative Update: June 2013
Social Security's Solvency Can Be Improved Without Cutting Benefits By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Since its inception in 1937, Social Security has been financed by a dedicated payroll tax on all earnings ...
Two Social Security Reforms That Seniors Strongly Support
Two Social Security Reforms That Seniors Strongly Support Alexandria, VA (June 17, 2013) Seniors are closely following the debate over Social Security, and a new survey indicates strong support for two major changes ...
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