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• Thank Social Security Hero Tom Harkin!

  November 21, 2014: Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) is retiring after 40 years of dedicated public service, including the championing of policies and legislation benefiting Social Security and Medicare recipients and their families. One of those pieces of leg Read More >

• Winners in the Midterm Elections Will Affect Policies via the Budget

  November 14, 2014: The New York Times reports that Congressional Republicans intend to present a plan to overhaul Medicare, calling for vouchers that they call “premium supports” to steer people 65 and over into buying private health insurance. Read More >

• Election Results Heavily Favor Republicans over Democrats

  November 07, 2014: A Republican tide swept over the country Tuesday, giving the GOP full control of Congress. The GOP’s crowning achievement was capturing a majority in the U.S. Senate. Republicans have picked up seven Senate seats and will have a Read More >

• Don’t Forget: Tuesday is Election Day!

  October 31, 2014: Tuesday, November 4 is Election Day, and seniors in every state will be affected by the results. If right-wing extremists take over both houses of Congress, then Social Security and Medicare will be direct targets of the majority Read More >

• Social Security Benefits will Increase by 1.7% in 2015

  October 24, 2014: Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 64 million Americans will increase 1.7% in 2015, the Social Security Administration announced on Wednesday. The Social Security Act ties the annual Read More >

• Health Experts: Sequester and Other Budget Cuts Left us Vulnerable to Ebola

  October 17, 2014: Health experts are saying that the budget cuts, including sequestration, resulting from fiscal conservatives’ goal of cutting government at all costs, has greatly exacerbated the Ebola crisis in Africa and left the U.S. vulnerab Read More >

• Astronomical Prices of Some Cancer Drugs Hit Vulnerable Patients Hard

  October 10, 2014: 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on the high price of cancer drugs in the U.S. Lesley Stahl’spiece shed light on the fact that Medicare has to pay the price determined by the drug companies, since under current law, Medicare is p Read More >

• Thousands of Alliance Members Join Tele-Town Hall Calls with Candidates

  October 03, 2014: More than 6,000 Alliance members dialed in Monday night on a tele-town hall conference call with Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), with several of the activists asking Sen. Hagan questions. Seniors advocate Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of the mus Read More >

• Rally at U.S. Capitol Fires up Seniors

  September 19, 2014: On Thursday, the Alliance for Retired Americans, Americans United for Change and allies held a rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC to say, “Hands off Social Security and Medicare!” Additional event co-sponsors included Read More >

• Seniors Increasingly Struggle to Pay Back Educational Loans

  September 12, 2014: Watsonville, California resident Rosemary Anderson testified in Washington on Wednesday before the Senate Aging Committee’s hearing on older Americans and student loan debt. “Some may think of student loan debt as just a young Read More >