New Medicare Advantage Rates Preserve Insurance Industry Subsidies...Again
For the second year in a row, America’s massive health insurance industry lobby launched a Washington lobbying and advertising blitz hoping to scare seniors into believing they’ll lose their Medicare...
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Social Security Made the Difference in Hawaii Senate Primary
Hawaii’s Democratic Senate primary win for Sen. Brian Schatz sends an important signal to candidates nationwide about the huge role Social Security can and will play in their Congressional re-election...
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The Social Security “Crisis” Created by Congress
While the well-financed Wall Street-backed campaign to convince Americans that Social Security is in crisis (even though the facts prove just the opposite) has sputtered over time, that hasn’t stopped...
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Congress Goes Home Leaving Social Security Administration Without a Director...
Let’s take quick stock of what this lame duck Congressional session has meant for middle-class Americans, especially seniors and their families: 1. Legislation that reversed 40 years of federal law...
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Social Security Targeted on Day One of New Congress
Members of the new 114th Congress had barely taken their oaths of office today when they passed a proposal threatening millions of Americans who receive Social Security benefits. The Center on Budget...
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Will the President Fight for Social Security & Medicare?
President Obama’s State of the Union address to Congress next Tuesday should provide some desperately-needed insight into just how far this administration will go to defend and strengthen America’s...
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The Truth about the 2015 Social Security and Medicare Trustees Report
Social Security is still fully funded for nearly two decades, a COLA increase unlikely, and health care reform continues to preserve Medicare’s solvency“No doubt, today’s unsurprising news in the...
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No, the Budget Deal Did NOT Cut Your Social Security Benefits
America’s seniors, people with disabilities and their families who depend on Social Security have legitimate reason to be scared whenever Congress starts cutting backdoor deals because they know from...
View ArticleSeniors Applaud Clinton Plan to Stop Rx Drug Price Gouging
It’s become an all-too-common story...America’s drug industry has raised the prices of nearly 400 generic drugs by over 1,000% between 2008 and 2015. The truth is, these drugs are not cutting-edge and...
View ArticleRepublican Senators Say Now’s the Time to Cut Social Security, Medicare &...
A group of freshman GOP Senators has decided the time is right to launch a frontal assault on funding for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Led by Georgia’s David Perdue, the conservative...
View ArticleHow to Talk About Social Security (& Medicare) Without Really Talking...
News that Social Security and Medicare might finally be topics discussed in the last Presidential debate on Wednesday night should be welcome news for those of us who’ve worked hard all year to try and...
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The Trump Conundrum: He Can’t Keep His Promise to Seniors While Also...
Donald Trump made a lot of promises to the American people during the Presidential campaign. For seniors, who supported him overwhelmingly, none was more important that his promise “not to touch”...
View ArticleIn The Fight To Save Retirement Security For The Working Class
After his re-election in 2004, President George W. Bush declared he would spend his political capital to realize a long-held conservative goal: end Social Security as we know it and turn it over to...
View ArticleMulvaney Actively Subverting Trump’s Promises on Social Security and Medicare
We have been skeptical since last fall about President Trump’s promises not to touch Social Security and Medicare, partly because of the privatizers and cutters he appointed to high office. Now,...
View ArticleSpeaker Ryan's Song of Spring: Cut "Entitlements"
Along with Cherry Blossoms and the White House Easter Egg Roll, Spring has brought fresh talk of “entitlement reform” to the Nation’s Capital. Of course, Social Security and Medicare are not...
View ArticleThe Best Mother's Day Gift of All: Retirement Security
Let’s add something to the gift list for mom this Mother’s Day along with flowers and candy: financial security in retirement. Our nation’s mothers – indeed, all American women – are at greater risk...
View ArticleMyths about Mental Illness and Social Security Disability Insurance Debunked
In order to justify its $64 billion in cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), the Trump administration and its allies have had to propagate several myths. The most insidious one is that...
View ArticleSocial Security and Medicare are Financially Sound, Not “Going Bankrupt,”...
The 2017 OASDI Trustees Report confirms that the Social Security Trust fund is stable and healthy for now, but faces challenges in the future if corrective action is not taken. The most important...
View ArticleRep. Dave Brat at His Worst: Spreading Myths About Social Security and Medicare
In a contentious interview with CNN’s Kate Bolduan this week, Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) perpetuated some dangerous myths about Social Security and Medicare. Brat, a Tea Partier and fiscal bomb thrower,...
View ArticleMisleading Media Headlines on Social Security & Medicare Finances
Reading the headlines from earlier this week, one would think that Social Security and Medicare were on their deathbeds. The latest flurry of misleading headlines came in response to the release of...
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House Budget Proposal Makes GOP Priorities Painfully Clear
The ironically titled 2019 House Republican budget, “A Brighter American Future,” may brighten the spirits of the GOP’s rich and powerful donors, but serves as a gloomy portent for millions of less...
View ArticleSocial Security Injects Billions into the Economy, Data Shows
As we approach Social Security’s 83rd anniversary this mid-term election year, what better time to remind candidates for House and Senate about the program’s immense contribution to the economy? Every...
View ArticleTrump Advisor Re-Affirms Commitment to Cutting Social Security & Medicare
In case there was any doubt that the White House and many Congressional Republicans still want to cut Americans’ earned benefits, chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow just confirmed it. On Monday at...
View ArticleTrump 2020 Budget Shortchanges Seniors
They say that a White House budget is merely a messaging document – especially in an era of divided government. In that case, the Trump administration has sent a grim message to America’s seniors in...
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House Dems Hold First Hearings on Social Security Expansion
For the first time in recent memory, the U.S. House has begun holding hearings on the issue of expanding Social Security. On Wednesday, the newly-minted chairman of the House Ways and Means Social...
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Ruhle vs. Reality: MSNBC Segment Promotes Social Security Myths
In yet another example of mainstream journalists (perhaps unwittingly) echoing conservative talking points, MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle helped perpetuate a false narrative about Social Security on her...
View ArticleSocial Security’s Financial Health Improves, Trustees Say
Social Security’s financial health is on the upswing, according to today’s report from the Social Security Trustees. The system’s reserves are now projected to last until 2035 (a full year longer than...
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Delay Claiming Social Security & Gain Higher Benefits
Near retirees in Greater Baltimore are being beckoned by a billboard on wheels encouraging them to delay claiming Social Security. Baltimore is one of five U.S. cities where the National Committee has...
View ArticleNational Committee to Millennials: Social Security Belongs to You, Too!
The National Committee is actively pushing back against conservative propaganda about Social Security aimed squarely at Millennials. In June, NCPSSM released a video refuting Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s...
View ArticleTonight’s Democratic Debate Must Include Social Security
Given Social Security’s importance to all Americans, you can imagine my surprise that none of the moderators in the first two rounds of Democratic debates asked a single question about it. Our nation...
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Elizabeth Warren First to Highlight Social Security in Democratic Debates
Major kudos to Elizabeth Warren for being the first candidate to mention Social Security on the 2020 Democratic primary debate stage. The moderators of last night’s CNN/New York Times debate failed to...
View Article2020 Social Security COLA Scant Relief for Seniors
The scant 1.6% Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2020 is another big disappointment for America’s seniors. The paltry new COLA will yield a $24 per month increase for the average...
View ArticleIowa Democratic Debate Neglects Social Security
We have just witnessed the seventh Democratic presidential debate of the 2020 election cycle without a single question about Social Security. The candidates tousled over foreign and domestic policy,...
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Trump SSDI Rule a “Brutal and Vile Attack” on Disabled Americans
Calling a proposed new Trump administration rule a “brutal and vile attack on the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) system,” lawmakers and advocates pledged on Tuesday to fight back “with all...
View ArticlePresident Trump Pays Lip Service to Seniors’ Issues While Breaking Promises
National Committee president and CEO Max Richtman issued the following statement in response to last night’s State of the Union address:“President Trump paid lip service to preserving Social Security...
View ArticleTrump Budget Would Leave Seniors Hungrier, Sicker, Poorer
President Trump’s just-released 2021 budget proposal would leave seniors and other vulnerable citizens hungrier, sicker, and poorer. The spending plan betrays the president’s promises “not to touch”...
View ArticleTrump’s Policies, Seniors, and a Town Hall with Rep. Jared Huffman
National Committee president Max Richtman brought a message of optimism and vigilance to a gathering of seniors in the San Francisco Bay area yesterday. He joined Congressman Jared Huffman (D-CA) for...
View ArticleVeterans Rely on Social Security and Medicare, Too
National Committee president Max Richtman joined a true champion for seniors in Congress, Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA), for a town hall with local veterans in Vacaville, California on Monday. Though...
View ArticleCoronavirus Crisis Poses Fresh Challenges for SSA
The coronavirus crisis has thrust extraordinary challenges onto the already beleaguered Social Security Administration (SSA). As the administrator for Social Security, Social Security Disability...
View ArticleTrustees Report Highlights Need to Strengthen Social Security, Not Imperil It
The 2020 Trustees Report reveals, once again, that Social Security is not going ‘bankrupt’ or becoming ‘insolvent’— as opponents often claim. If Congress takes no preventative action, the program’s...
View ArticlePayroll Tax Cuts the First Step in Dismantling Social Security
President Trump set off alarm bells for America’s seniors on a Sunday FOX town hall by insisting once again on eliminating Social Security payroll taxes – both employer and worker contributions. The...
View ArticleWhite House Advisors Float New Idea to Undermine Social Security
On the heels of President Trump’s repeated calls to eliminate Social Security’s funding stream through payroll tax cuts, influential White House advisors are considering a fresh ploy to undermine...
View ArticleSorry, Reuters: Payroll Tax Cut Would Not Benefit Lower Income Workers the Most
It’s crucial that the news media put President Trump’s harmful proposals for payroll tax cuts in perspective. Many publications are doing a decent job of that, including the Los Angeles Times, CNBC,...
View ArticleTrump Administration No Friend to Seniors
With about five months until the 2020 elections, President Trump is underwater with senior voters – a demographic that he won in 2016. Since these polling numbers came out, the President has been...
View ArticleRepublicans Right to Reject Trump Payroll Tax Cuts, Wrong to Include TRUST...
The National Committee issued the following statement today in response to the latest reporting from Capitol Hill about GOP plans for the next Coronavirus relief bill.“Republicans have jettisoned the...
View ArticleNational Committee Releases Congressional Scorecard in Advance of 2020 Elections
For the first time, voters across America can now access a Congressional Scorecard from the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare to view their elected representatives’ records on...
View ArticleLouise of ‘Harry & Louise’ Ads Warns Trump Endangers Social Security
Louise Clark Goddard, of the iconic “Harry and Louise” ads, is speaking out against President Trump’s handling of Social Security. In a new video released by the National Committee to Preserve Social...
View ArticleTrump’s Latest Ploy to Deny Disability Benefits
The Trump administration has been trying for four years to find crafty ways to deprive workers of their Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) benefits. Recent reporting indicates that the...
View ArticleHappy 86th Anniversary to Social Security
By MAX RICHTMANOne of our nation’s most popular federal programs marks another year of success on August 14th. Social Security—the income security program for workers, retirees, people with...
View ArticlePresident Biden is rock solid on Social Security, I know
BY MAX RICHTMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 03/20/23 3:00 PM ETShortly after their reelection victory in 2012, I was invited as the head of our national seniors’ organization to a meeting at the White House...
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