Social Security

• TRO Issued in Retiree, Union Lawsuit to Block DOGE’s Access to Social Security Data

  March 20, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement re. the U.S. District Court of the District of Maryland issuing a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in American Federation o...Read more >

• DOGE Continues Dismantling SSA by Ending Telephone Services for Claims

  March 19, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement regarding the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) abrupt termination of telephone services for benefit claims: “Pr...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Under Trump, Social Security Resumes What It Once Called ‘Clawback Cruelty’

  March 13, 2025: A year ago, a new head of Social Security set out to stop the agency from financially devastating many of the people it was meant to help. The agency had long made it a practice to reduce or halt benefit checks to recoup billions of dollars in pay...Read more >

• Retirees Outraged at Possible End to Social Security Telephone Services

  March 12, 2025: Washington, D.C. — Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, issued the following statement in response to a Washington Post report that the Social Security Administration (SSA) is considering “ending telephone ser...Read more >

• Unions, Retirees Seek Emergency Relief to Block DOGE’s Unlawful Social Security Data Overreach

  March 08, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Illegal Access to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Baltimore, MD — Yesterday, a coalition of unions and retirees filed a motion for emergency relief to...Read more >

• Trump’s Lies on Social Security Continue—Americans Deserve the Truth and the Social Security They Earned

  March 04, 2025: Statement by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, on President Trump’s Lies About Social Security during his Address to a Joint Session of Congress "Tonight, President Trump doubled down on Elon Musk’s debu...Read more >

• Musk Undercuts Trump’s Promise Not to Cut Social Security

  March 01, 2025: Appearance on Joe Rogan is Latest Evidence of a Systematic Campaign to Gut Retirement Security The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans: President Trump repeatedly promised “...Read more >

• SUIT FILED: In New Challenge, Retirees, Unions Seek to Block DOGE’s Unprecedented, Unlawful Social Security Data, Power Grab

  February 22, 2025: AFSCME, Alliance for Retired Americans, AFT Challenge DOGE’s Access, Executed by Unconfirmed, Acting Official, to Confidential, Private Data of Hundreds of Millions of Americans Suit filed on heels of SSA Acting Head’s Departure Amid Concerns ab...Read more >

• Seniors Are Alarmed by DOGE Access to Their Personal Data in SSA Systems and Musk’s Disinformation Campaign

  February 18, 2025: Alliance for Retired Americans leader Richard Fiesta released the following statement on the chaos created by the Trump Administration at the Social Security Administration (SSA) last night: “Every American should be alarmed that Elon Musk’s u...Read more >

• Connecticut Alliance President Introduces President Biden at Social Security Fairness Act Bill Signing Ceremony

  January 05, 2025: Millions of Americans Will Now Receive the Full Social Security Benefits They Earned Washington, DC - President Biden signed the Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82, into law at the White House today. The ceremony is the culmination of decades ...Read more >