Social Security Expansion
How will recent Social Security expansion efforts benefit older Americans?
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Save Social Security Virtual Phone Bank
March 21, 2025: Read More >
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Acting Social Security Commissioner Threatens to Hold 73 Million Americans’ Benefits Hostage
March 21, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding Acting Social Security Commissioner Lee Dudek’s threats to shut down the Social Security Adm Read More >
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TRO Issued in Retiree, Union Lawsuit to Block DOGE’s Access to Social Security Data
March 20, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement re. the U.S. District Court of the District of Maryland issuing a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in A Read More >
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DOGE Continues Dismantling SSA by Ending Telephone Services for Claims
March 19, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) abrupt termination of telephone services for bene Read More >
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KFF Health News: Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’
March 13, 2025: A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant to help. The agency had long made it a practice to reduce or halt benefit checks to recoup billio Read More >
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Retirees Outraged at Possible End to Social Security Telephone Services
March 12, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement in response to a Washington Post report that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is considering “ Read More >
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Unions, Retirees Seek Emergency Relief to Block DOGE’s Unlawful Social Security Data Overreach
March 08, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Illegal Access to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Baltimore, MD — Yesterday, a coalition of unions and retirees filed a motion for Read More >
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KFF Health News: Trump Vowed To End Surprise Medical Bills. The Office Working on That Just Got Slashed.
March 06, 2025: As President Donald Trump wrapped up his first term in 2020, he signed legislation to protect Americans from surprise medical bills. “This must end,” Trump said. “We’re going to hold insurance companies and hospitals total Read More >
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Trump’s Lies on Social Security Continue—Americans Deserve the Truth and the Social Security They Earned
March 04, 2025: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on President Trump’s Lies About Social Security during his Address to a Joint Session of Congress "Tonight, President Trump doubled down o Read More >
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Musk Undercuts Trump’s Promise Not to Cut Social Security
March 01, 2025: Appearance on Joe Rogan is Latest Evidence of a Systematic Campaign to Gut Retirement Security The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans: President Trump rep Read More >
