The chance of problems affecting the timely funding of Social Security benefits appears to be growing this year. The Republican majority in the House pushed through a new set of rules which would make it harder to raise ...

By Mary Johnson, Editor Some financial experts theorize that retirees can look forward to an improvement in buying power this year. As the rate of inflation falls, that should mean the buying power of Social Security ...

Roughly 84 million people in the U.S., including 7.2 million low-income seniors, are covered by Medicaid, which has grown by 20 million people since January 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. But as states b ...

Cutting “waste, fraud, and abuse” is always part of the solution politicians bring up when they discuss how to reduce government spending.  But there’s a debate about just what “waste, fraud, and abuse” really is. A c ...

Congress is off to a slower start this year, even as critical issues that soon must be dealt with remain unsettled. This seems to be especially true in the House of Representatives, which in the past usually got its work ...

This is one of the hottest topics in Washington right now. Because it’s so important to seniors, we want to recap the issue for you. The crisis has come about because the federal government will sometime in the coming ...

One of the little-known provisions of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act that Congress passed last fall requires all adult vaccines covered under Medicare Part D, like the one for shingles, be covered at no cost i ...

Press Briefing 01.12.2023 ...

By Mary Johnson, Editor Concern is growing that Social Security benefits could be affected by negotiations over lifting the federal debt limit later this year. Sound familiar? Many of you have heard it before. The str ...

According to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the poverty rate among older Americans grew during 2020 to 2021. Seniors were the only age group to experience an increase in poverty. The share of older adults in the U ...