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• Report: Social Security Benefit Cuts Would Be Devastating for Americans

  September 12, 2025: More than half (56 percent) of Americans surveyed in a new analysis from Nationwide Financial agreed that they would “not be able to survive” if they even lost half of their monthly Social Security payment. The survey showe Read More >

• Americans Struggle to Access COVID Vaccines

  September 12, 2025: HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. has said that Americans who want COVID shots will be able to get them. However, some older Americans have reported going to local pharmacies to receive a COVID vaccine only to discover that Medic Read More >

• KFF Health News: In the Fallout From Trump’s Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decision

  September 09, 2025: Patients begin lining up before dawn at Operation Border Health, an annual five-day health clinic in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley. Many residents in this predominantly Latino and Hispanic region spanning the Mexican border lack insu Read More >

• HHS Secretary Grilled About Medicaid, CDC Firings, and Vaccines During Contentious Hearing

  September 05, 2025: During a tense hearing on Thursday, members of the Senate Finance Committee pressed HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about his position on a number of issues, including Medicare drug price negotiation, vaccine skepticism, recen Read More >

• KFF Health News: Social Security Praises Its New Chatbot. Ex-Officials Say It Was Tested But Shelved Under Biden.

  September 02, 2025: John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers tend to Read More >

• KFF Health News: How Older People Are Reaping Brain Benefits From New Tech

  August 21, 2025: It started with a high school typing course. Wanda Woods enrolled because her father advised that typing proficiency would lead to jobs. Sure enough, the federal Environmental Protection Agency hired her as an after-school work Read More >

• KFF Health News: Breaking Down Why Medicare Part D Premiums Are Likely To Go Up

  August 15, 2025: Medicare enrollees who buy the optional Part D drug benefit may see substantial premium price hikes — potentially up to $50 a month — when they shop for next year’s coverage. Such drug plans are used by millions of people Read More >

• Retiree Activists Mark 90th Anniversary of Social Security with Nationwide Call to Action

  August 14, 2025: WASHINGTON – From Connecticut to California, retiree activist members of the Alliance for Retired Americans are rallying at more than 50 events to demand that Congress and the Trump Administration protect and strengthen Social S Read More >

• KFF Health News: Experts Say Rural Emergency Rooms Are Increasingly Run Without Doctors

  August 12, 2025: EKALAKA, Mont. — There was no doctor on-site when a patient arrived in early June at the emergency room in the small hospital at the intersection of two dirt roads in this town of 400 residents. There never is. Dahl Memori Read More >

• Alliance Members Mark Social Security’s 90th Anniversary with Mobilization Events Across the Country

  August 08, 2025: Alliance members have joined the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and other labor allies to hold dozens of “Save Social Security” events to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the earned benefits program. Read More >