Fact Sheets

• Fact Sheet: Quality Care for Nursing Home Residents and Workers During COVID-19 Act

  June 19, 2020: The pandemic hit nursing homes and long-term care facilities particularly hard. To help address the crisis and protect residents and workers, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) filed the Quality Care for Nursing Ho...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: TRUST Act

  June 17, 2020: On October 31, 2019, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) introduced the Time to Rescue the United States Trusts (TRUST) Act, S. 2733 & H.R. 4907. They falsely claimed that Social Security and Medicare are “spi...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Coronavirus Updates for Retirees, Veterans, and Seniors

  April 17, 2020: There has been a lot of confusion about how seniors, retirees, people with disabilities, and veterans will receive the coronavirus stimulus checks. To address this, we created a fact sheet that provides an update about what you need to do to get y...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Coronavirus Response and Older Americans

  March 03, 2020: In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Congress enacted three coronavirus assistance packages to provide relief to families and businesses in March 2020. The packages also helped older Americans and nursing homes. Provisions included out-of-netw...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: House Drug Price Negotiation Bill

  January 18, 2020: The “noninterference” clause of Medicare Part D currently prohibits the government from negotiating lower drug prices. To address this issue,  House Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats passed the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3) on December 1...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Medicare Expansion

  January 17, 2020: On December 12, 2019, the U.S. House passed the Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R. 3), which allows the government to negotiate lower drug prices for people covered by Medicare and private insurance. The legislation also includes three Medicare expans...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Multi-employer Pensions Handout

  July 01, 2019: More than one million Americans depend on multiemployer pension plans for their retirement. In July 2019, more than 100 multiemployer pension plans were likely to fail within the next 20 years, jeopardizing the retirement income of the workers and re...Read more >

• Fact Sheet: Private Sector Pensions Fact Sheet

  May 10, 2018: The Alliance often works with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC), an independent government agency, to protect workers’ and retirees’ private sector defined benefit pension plans and ensure that they remain a key part of Americans’...Read more >