2024 Elections

• KFF Health News: States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

  July 18, 2024: For hours, John Pernorio repeatedly mashed the call button at his bedside in the Heritage Hills nursing home in Rhode Island. A retired truck driver, he had injured his spine in a fall on the job decades earlier and could no longer walk. The antibiot...Read more >

• Trump-Vance: Another Step Toward Retirement Insecurity

  July 15, 2024: Selection of J.D. Vance as Vice Presidential Nominee Deepens Fears that Trump Would Cut Social Security, Medicare Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, released the following statement regarding Donald Trump’s...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Marlene Galán-Woods in Primary for Election to U.S. House

  July 11, 2024: Cites Her Commitment to Protecting and Expanding Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Scottsdale, AZ - The Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced its endorsement of Marlene Galán-Woods in the Democratic primary for Arizona’s ...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Statement on Presidential Campaign

  July 05, 2024: Statement from Alliance for Retired Americans President Robert Roach, Jr. on the state of the presidential campaign. “Since they took the oath of office, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have fought tirelessly to improve the ...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Jahana Hayes for Reelection to U.S. House

  June 25, 2024: Cites Her Commitment to Expanding and Protecting Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits New Britain, CT - Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced their endorsement of Rep. Jahana Hayes for reelection to the U.S. Hou...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Colin Allred for Election to U.S. Senate

  May 31, 2024: Cites His Commitment to Protecting Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Dallas - Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced their endorsement of Congressman Colin Allred for election to the U.S. Senate from Texas toda...Read more >

• Retiree Group Endorses Ruben Gallego for the U.S. Senate

  May 20, 2024: Cites His Commitment to Expanding and Protecting Earned Social Security and Medicare Benefits Phoenix - Members of the Alliance for Retired Americans proudly announced their endorsement of Ruben Gallego for election to the U.S. Senate from Arizo...Read more >

• Seniors Beware: Guaranteed Medicare Benefits at Risk if Trump Returns to Office

  February 05, 2024: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to a Rolling Stone magazine article today detailing GOP plans to move quickly to privatize Medicare if Donald Trump is elected...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Enthusiastically Endorses Joe Biden for Reelection

  January 30, 2024: Washington, DC -- Citing President Biden’s record of commitment to retirement security for every American, the Alliance for Retired Americans, a national grassroots advocacy organization, today endorsed Joe Biden for reelection as President and Kam...Read more >