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 ...
TSCL in the News
TSCL has become the “go to” place for many reporters who write about senior issues, including estimates of the annual Social Security COLA for seniors each year. Today, the Washington Post, in an article about how sen ...
Senate (Finally) Passes Historic Bill to Lower Seniors’ Drug Costs
After over a year of negotiations and near-death experiences, the Senate has managed to pass historic legislation that could, among several other things, lower prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. If passe ...
WEP/GPO Update
On Friday, July 29, 2022 The Senior Citizens League participated in a Press Conference with Representatives Abigail Spanberger and Rodney Davis to show support for H.R. 82 The Social Security Fairness Act. This bipart ...
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