Social Security News

President Franklin Roosevelt ( November 1934 ): “We must not allow this type of insurance to become a dole through the mingling of insurance...

      The Editorial Board of the Washington Post has come out with its plan to “save” Social Security. It’s fairly simple: means test benef...

      Jeffrey Mirin of the right wing Cato Institute looks at the possibility of the Social Security trust funds running dry and benefits b...

      From a press release issued by Nationwide Insurance: Despite widespread political divisions,  Americans across political party lines l...

      Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on the looming depletion of Social Security’s Retirement and Survivors Trust F...

      A press release: U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) announced the Committee will convene for a hearing entitl...

      From Howard Gleckman writing for Forbes about Congressional ideas for commissions to come up with plans to address Social Security’s ...

      From CBS News:  A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Tuesday designed to shore up Social Security's finances in the...

      The Netherlands is having trouble financing its social security systems. Cuts in benefits are being discussed. According to the NL Tim...

      From an op ed by Lyman Stone in the New York Times: …  If America’s population does decline, it will strain our entitlements system, ...

      The Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing for June 24 on The Future of Social Security. There are two scheduled witnesses,...

      From People : Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., ducked questions about the possibility of House Speaker  Mike Johnson  making cuts to  Social S...

       The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing yesterday on  Social Security: A Discussion on the Facts and the Path Forward.   It doesn’...

       From E&E News : House Natural Resources subcommittee will take up several public lands bills during a hearing this week, includin...

      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...