Social Security Expansion
How will recent Social Security expansion efforts benefit older Americans?
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Kaiser Health News: Biden Promises to Fight GOP on ‘Gutting’ Medicaid. Budget Talks Seem Like Another Story.
March 02, 2023: Most lawmakers — Republicans and Democrats alike — have declared the marquee safety-net programs of Medicare and Social Security off-limits for cuts as a divided Washington heads for a showdown over the national debt and government spending. Heal...Read more >
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Steps to Hold Medicare Advantage Accountable are Not Cuts, Experts Say
February 27, 2023: Two announcements by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) related to Medicare Advantage — an alternative to original Medicare, primarily run by major insurance companies — have brought additional discussion about Medicare cuts. ...Read more >
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Take Action: Sign the Alliance’s Petition to Save Social Security
February 27, 2023: Even though the extremist Republicans stood during the State of the Union to supposedly show “support” for Social Security and Medicare, they are scheming to cut our earned benefits. They aren’t even keeping it a secret, going on television to ...Read more >
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Congressional Republican Agenda Would Increase the Debt by Over $3 Trillion
February 21, 2023: The White House released a new fact sheet this week showing that the House Republicans’ legislative agenda would increase the national debt by over $3 trillion over 10 years. The first bill passed by the new Republican House majority would incre...Read more >
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Nobel Laureate Economist Paul Krugman Details Decades of GOP Plans to Cut Social Security and Medicare
February 21, 2023: Despite some Republicans’ claims to the contrary, columnist and economist Paul Krugman reminded readers this week that many in the GOP do want to eviscerate Social Security and Medicare, writing that "to believe otherwise requires both willful naï...Read more >
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Position Paper: Increasing the Debt Ceiling Fact Sheet
February 07, 2023: The debt ceiling is a legal restriction on how much money the federal government can borrow to pay its bills. Congress instituted the debt ceiling in 1917 as a way to rein in federal agencies that were ignoring Congress and setting their own budgets,...Read more >
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State of the Union: Retirees Call on President Biden to Stress That Social Security and Medicare Cuts Remain Off the Table
February 07, 2023: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in advance of President Biden’s State of the Union address: “The state of the union is strong, but older Americans' retirement secu...Read more >
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Kaiser Health News: Government Lets Health Plans That Ripped Off Medicare Keep the Money
February 03, 2023: Medicare Advantage plans for seniors dodged a major financial bullet Monday as government officials gave them a reprieve for returning hundreds of millions of dollars or more in government overpayments — some dating back a decade or more. The he...Read more >
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Democrats Debate Whether President Biden Should Negotiate with Speaker McCarthy on Debt Limit
January 30, 2023: House lawmakers and the White House continued to spar last week over whether to include Social Security and Medicare in negotiations over raising the debt limit. President Biden has steadfastly pledged not to cut the programs, insisting that the debt...Read more >
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House GOP’s Plans to Cut Social Security and Medicare Advance
January 17, 2023: Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said last Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans don’t plan to alter benefits for current Social Security and Medicare recipients. However, at least 127 members of the House Republican Study Committee ha...Read more >
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