Congress is now in recess until after Labor Day. If they are running for re-election, all members of the House of Representatives and one-third of the members of the Senate are now back in their states campaigning. Wh ...
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Number of Older Adults Receiving Low Income Assistance May Have Doubled Since the Start of the Pandemic
Roughly 37% of older adults who participated in TSCL’s latest survey, the “Seniors Priority Plan,” had some startling information for us as well as for Members of Congress. This group indicated that they receive low-inco ...
Ask the Advisor: August 2022
How Did Mortality From COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Social Security Finances? Q: I recently read that the Social Security Trust Fund picked up an extra year of solvency. Was that due to the high mortality rate in senior ...
Legislative Update: August 2022
TSCL Endorses Legislation That Would Boost Benefits $2,400 per Year By Doug Osborne, TSCL Legislative Liaison Social Security recipients have been hit hard by inflation this year. Inflation is eating into the buyi ...
Benefit Bulletin: August 2022
Medicare Won’t Issue Refunds For Part B Premiums This Year Rick Delaney, TSCL Chairman of the Board Here’s a recent email that we received from a TSCL supporter in the state of Washington: I must have missed TSC ...
“Data Mining” Scheme To Overcharge Medicare Leads to Crackdown
Data analytics firms and “data mining” are the center of a broad government crackdown on abusive Medicare Advantage overcharges according to the U.S. Department of Justice. In California, for example, a health system sc ...
Inflation Likely to Last Through 2023
Many of you may have been trying to catch up on family gatherings and travel this year after those activities were so curtailed during the pandemic. Now rising interest rates for consumer credit cards, on top of higher ...
Here are the Details of the New Law That Will Lower Drug Prices
As published on the website Modernhealthcare.com, an analysis by Kaiser Health News says this about the new legislation: The new legislation “… will have a major impact on Medicare, including by allowing the program t ...
Second Republican Senator Proposes Taking Away the Guarantee of Social Security, Medicare
As most voters are aware, there will be elections this fall. All seats in the House of Representatives are up for election as are one-third of the seats in the Senate. As things appear now, the Republicans are expecte ...
House Passes Historic Legislation to Lower Drug Prices
Last Friday the House of Representatives completed the last Congressional action needed to pass the historic legislation that will, finally, lower some prescription drug prices. The bill has been sent to the President ...
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