Social Security News

      From the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: The Social Security retirement and Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) trust funds a...

     From Tom Margenau , a retired Social Security employee with a syndicated column: … I remember way back in 1973 when I was sent out as a...

      From an op ed piece in the Washington Post by Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Tim Kaine (D-VV): … We propose creating an additional i...

      From The Hill : The new head of the agency responsible for administering Social Security and Medicare said Sunday he plans to make sur...

      From a report on opinion polling performed by Greenwald Research for the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI): ... This survey...

      John Tammy has written a piece for Forbes arguing that Social Security is no longer the Third Rail of American politics because peopl...

      From The Hill writing about Tuesday's hearing before the House Social Security Subcommittee on future funding of Social Security ...

What about more people like these taking the citizenship oath?       Megan McArdle writes for the Washington Post that " The only real...

      From a press release : The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report on the financial status of the health o...

    From The Case For Using Subsidies For Retirement Plans To Fix Social Security by Andrew Biggs and Alicia Munnell: The U.S. Treasury es...

       From Marketwatch : When Alan Greenspan and his committee supposedly “fixed” Social Security’s funding crisis in the early 1980s, the ...

      Back in 2015 Martin O'Malley was running for President. He didn't get very far but he did take these positions on Social Secur...

      A press release : There will be a H earing of the Committee on the Budget  On:   Wednesday, July 12, 2023, 10:00 AM  In:  Room SD-60...

      From the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College: ... The fact that in 2033 Social Security would be able to pay only 77 pe...

      From the Associated Press : Most U.S. adults are opposed to proposals that would cut into Medicare or Social Security benefits, and a...

      From Semafor : A bipartisan group led by Sens. Angus King, I-Maine, and Bill Cassidy, R-La. is considering gradually raising the re...

      Paul Krugman has an excellent piece in the New York Times about why we should not panic about Social Security. You really should read...

  From the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

    From the Washington Post :  In that Jan. 25 meeting [with the President], [Senator Bernie] Sanders pushed the president to fully fund S...

      From Marketwatch : Social Security should be able to pay out full benefits until 2035 without any intervention, but a proposal by Sen...