By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) often hears from seniors who report that their doctors are no longer accepting Medicare patients.  The situation stems from a payment formula, ...

This week, negotiations on raising the debt limit continued on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Rep. Joseph Crowley (NY-7) introduced the Seniors Protection Act of 2011, and support continued to build for key Social Security leg ...

This week, negotiations on raising the debt ceiling continued between President Obama and members of the House and Senate leadership. In addition, support continued to build for pieces of legislation to provide a fair co ...

The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) often receives comments and questions from our members and supporters about Social Security’s role in the debt and deficit. By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant no fax payday adva ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant “The best laid schemes of mice and men oft go awry.”  That was authored by 18th century poet Robert Burns, and served as the inspiration for the title of John Steinbeck’s book, ...

This jam-packed week kept The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) team quite busy.  Key events of the past week include: TSCL’s Board of Trustees holding their second meeting of 2011, which included hosting a Welcome Reception ...

Notes from Jessie Gibbons, TSCL Legislative Analyst In February, TSCL attended two Congressional Committee hearings on President Obama’s 2012 Budget.  The House Budget Committee held a hearing with Jacob Lew, Director o ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant givebones.com/text/ Over the past several months many different plans and ideas have surfaced to reduce the federal deficit, including what the government spends on Social Secur ...

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 ...

By Mike Watson, TSCL Legislative Assistant Since passage of Medicare in 1965 all seniors received the same benefits for the same standard premium.  But in 2003, Congress took the unprecedented step of passing legislatio ...