In Congress this Week While the pending impeachment trial of former President Trump, the continuing coronavirus disaster, and the debate over President Biden’s new economic stimulus bill has dominated the news, there ...

New Congress Sworn in but Little in the Way of Legislation Yet The new Congress has been sworn into office but little in the way of legislation regarding Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid has yet been introduced.  ...

Emergency 3% COLA, Social Security And Medicare Issues Land on the Congressional Priority List By Shannon Benton, Executive Director Before the New Year even started, TSCL had been working to convince Members of ou ...

As we begin a new year, we hope you had the best holiday season possible under the conditions we all continue to face because of the coronavirus pandemic.  We know the past ten months have been extremely hard for many Am ...

Barring any unexpected news relating to seniors this will be our last update for this year.  It has been an incredibly tough year.  We hope that despite all the challenges we all face, the health risks and the distancing ...

Congress Still Working to Avoid Government Shutdown If it weren’t for the coronavirus and the start of the vaccination program against it the top news story would probably be the fact that Congress still can’t reach a ...

Congress Still Can’t Get Its Work Done Congress has until the end of this Friday to pass legislation to fund the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2021.  Very few people think they’ll get it done. ...

Senate Returns to Work this Week The Senate returns to work this week in what is known as a “lame-duck session.”  The term refers to the fact that for some members of the current Congress, this will be their last few ...

Government Issues New Health Care Cost Transparency Rules In an effort to inject transparency into the obscure costs of health care the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued new rules that will requ ...

New Analysis Says Social Security/Medicare in Worse Shape Now than Earlier This Year Back in April the Social Security and Medicare Trustees released their reports with projections of the financial outlook of the pro ...