(Washington, DC) – The House fiscal year 2018 budget resolution includes instructions for creating an unusual Social Security “reform trigger” and sets up an expedited path for ensuing legislation, says The Senior Citize ...
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Proposal To Slow COLAs Not Accurate For Adjusting Social Security Benefits
(Washington, DC) – A budget proposal to switch to an alternate consumer price index, for calculating the annual Social Security cost – of - living - adjustment (COLA) is a bad deal for older and disabled Americans, says ...
Senate Health Bill Buries The Biggest Medicaid Cuts Using An Insufficient Inflation Adjustment
(Washington, DC) – The Senate’s health care repeal and replace bill, contains significantly deeper Medicaid cuts than those in the House bill, according to a new analysis by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). “Writers o ...
Social Security Benefits Lose 30% of Buying Power Since 2000
(Washington, DC) – Social Security beneficiaries have lost nearly one – third of their buying power since 2000, according to the 2017 Social Security Loss of Buying Power Study released today by The Senior Citizens Leagu ...
GOP Tax Reform Proposal Opposite Of What Older Voters Support
(Washington, DC) – A tax reform plan being floated by the House GOP would meet strong opposition from activists and older voters, warns The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). The plan would end the 12.4 percent payroll tax ...
Household Spending Up – Social Security Benefits Flat
(Washington, DC) – Older Americans report that their household budgets jumped substantially last year despite the lack of growth in their Social Security benefits, according to a new survey by The Senior Citizens Leag ...
Lift The Debt Limit! 95% Older Americans Say That Government Must Repay Money Borrowed From Social Security Trust Fund
(Washington, DC) – The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) is calling on Congressional leadership to lift the federal budget debt ceiling and prevent a default on the federal debt — including the debt held by the Social Sec ...
Majority of Older Voters Oppose Changes to Medicare Provisions, Says New Poll By The Senior Citizens League
(Washington, DC) – The House Republicans’ plan to repeal and replace the 2010 Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare) would substantially increase the health insurance premiums of older Americans age 50 - 64, whil ...
83% Of Older Voters Want Medicare To Negotiate Drug Prices
(Washington, DC) – An overwhelming majority of older voters want Congress to take action to slow sharply rising prescription drug costs, according to a recent survey by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL). Some 83 percent ...
Millionaires Need to Start Paying Their Fair Share
(Washington, DC) – Seventy - nine percent of older Americans think the highest -earning workers should be paying Social Security taxes on all of their wages, just like other workers do, according to recent survey by The ...
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