(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 ...
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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 ...
45% Retirees Spend More Than One – Third Of Their Social Security On Medicare
(Washington, DC) – Forty-five percent of Medicare beneficiaries say they spend more than one-third of their Social Security benefits on healthcare costs, according to a recent survey by The Senior Citizens League (TSCL) ...
If “Senior CPI” Used To Calculate COLA, Benefits Would Be 2.1% Higher In 2017 Says The Senior Citizens League
(Washington, DC) – Social Security recipients would get a cost-of-living- adjustment (COLA) that’s seven times higher this year if the annual boost were tied to the rise in the “seniors’” consumer price index, according ...
Recent Social Security Changes Were Unnecessary Benefit Cuts
(Washington, DC) Seventy percent of older voters say two recent Social Security changes were “unnecessary benefit cuts,” rather than a “closure of unintended loopholes,” according to a new poll by The Senior Citizens Le ...
2017 COLA Announcement
(Washington, DC) –Today’s announcement of a 0.3 percent cost - of - living adjustment (COLA) is another major disappointment to the 60 million people who depend on Social Security, says The Senior Citizens League (TSCL.) ...
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