The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the announcement that there will be a 2.8% cost-of-living (COLA) benefit increase for millions of Social Security beneficiaries, disabled veterans and federal... Read more
A new report from the Tech Transparency Project identified 63 scam advertisers that spent $49 million on more than 150,000 fraudulent Instagram and Facebook ads promoting fake stimulus checks, government benefits, and healthcare payments in the last year. Many of the ads are t... Read more
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time Location: AFL-CIO Headquarters, Washington, D.C. and also streamed online. Join labor movement leaders, policy experts, and others at a one day symposium to discuss the retirement security crisis. We will also examine next ste... Read more
Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 and those living in Republican congressional districts will be the hardest hit if the current Affordable Care Act tax credits are not renewed by Congress, according to new analyses from KFF. The tax credits expanded eligibility for subsi... Read more
The Alliance for Retired Americans blasted the Trump Administration’s decision to appoint Social Security Administration (SSA) Commissioner Frank Bisignano as CEO of the Internal Revenue Service — a move that will have him essentially lead both massive agencies at once. ... Read more
[caption id="attachment_15806" align="aligncenter" width="700"] St. John’s Community Health in Los Angeles is one of the roughly 1,500 community health centers, some of which run multiple clinics, that are bracing for cuts to government funds they rely on to operate. (Jackie Fo... Read more
The percentage of older Americans living in poverty increased from 14.2 to 15 percent between this year and last year, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The uptick is specific to seniors, as every other age group analyzed either had poverty rates that decr... Read more
Threats of a federal government shutdown have gone from being an October surprise to a recurring theme. This time around, though, the stakes are higher. Federal funding ran out at midnight on Oct. 1, after Congress failed to pass even a stopgap budget while negotiations contin... Read more
[caption id="attachment_15788" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Mehmet Oz, chief of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said during a June press conference that “violence in the streets” had prompted the Trump administration to take on the issue of prior authori... Read more
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