Press Releases

• Department of Justice Acknowledges Misconduct by Trump-Vance Administration, DOGE Employees by Unlawfully Accessing and Misusing Social Security Data

  January 22, 2026: Baltimore, Md. – After a bombshell filing in federal court made by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), wherein DOJ admitted to multiple inaccuracies and misrepresentations it made to federal courts in a case challenging the so-called Department o...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Responds to DOJ Revelation That DOGE Disclosed Americans’ Personal Data Held by the SSA

  January 21, 2026: Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s court filing admitting that DOGE team members improperly shared sensitive, personally identifying data held by the Soc...Read more >

• Retirees Welcome Second Round of Lower-Priced Drugs Negotiated Under the Inflation Reduction Act

  November 25, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the Administration's announcement of lower, negotiated prices for people with Medicare: “The requirement that Medicare nego...Read more >

• Alliance Applauds Administration’s Decision to Drop Harmful Proposal to Make Social Security Disability Benefits Harder to Claim

  November 20, 2025: Washington, DC – The Alliance for Retired Americans welcomes the Administration’s decision to halt its proposed overhaul of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) eligibility rules after overwhelming negative feedback from the public. The ch...Read more >

• Statement by Retiree Leader Richard Fiesta on the 2.8% COLA Increase for Social Security Beneficiaries

  October 24, 2025: 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,...Read more >

• Retiree Leader Condemns Plan to Run Social Security with a Part-Time Commissioner

  October 06, 2025: 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 m...Read more >

• Bisignano Admits Trump Administration Backing Away From Promise Not to Cut Social Security

  September 19, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in response to SSA Commissioner Frank Bisignano’s September 18, 2025 interview on Fox Business: Yesterday, the Commissioner of the So...Read more >

• Retiree Activists Mark 90th Anniversary of Social Security with Nationwide Call to Action

  August 14, 2025: WASHINGTON – From Connecticut to California, retiree activist members of the Alliance for Retired Americans are rallying at more than 50 events to demand that Congress and the Trump Administration protect and strengthen Social Security as the progr...Read more >

• Bessent Says Trump Accounts are “Backdoor” to Social Security Privatization

  July 30, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments on Social Security: “Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent let the cat out ...Read more >

• House Votes to Gut Health Care Millions of Older Americans Rely On to Pad Pockets of the Ultra-Wealthy

  July 03, 2025: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the House Budget Resolution Vote: “Today, the House turned its back on the very people they were elected to serve. This bil...Read more >