Social Security

• New Report Confirms Steep Decline in Social Security Administration Staffing Levels

  April 24, 2026: The number of staff members working at the Social Security Administration (SSA) has dropped precipitously since the beginning of last year, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service. More than 57,000 SSA workers – an alre...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Responds to SSA IG Data Breach Investigation

  March 10, 2026: Whistleblower alleges that a DOGE engineer removed Americans’ sensitive data on a thumb drive Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans responding to a 3/10/26 Washington Post report regarding alleged i...Read more >

• 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 >

• 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 >

• Social Security Callers Waiting Hours, Or Sometimes Days, for Help

  October 31, 2025: Seniors and people with disabilities calling the Social Security Administration (SSA) face endless looping music, long wait times, useless robot messages, and extended periods between a request and an actual callback, according to a new report from t...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 >

• Report: Social Security Benefit Cuts Would Be Devastating for Americans

  September 12, 2025: More than half (56 percent) of Americans surveyed in a new analysis from Nationwide Financial agreed that they would “not be able to survive” if they even lost half of their monthly Social Security payment. The survey showed that beneficiaries...Read more >