Social Security News

    From Follow-up on the Accuracy of the Social Security Administration’s Manual Billing Process to Collect Medicare Premiums , a report by...

      Below is an illustration from the testimony of Katherine Zuleger of Wausau ...

      From The New Republic : Republicans have claimed over and over again that they are not trying to cut Social Security and Medicare. He...

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

     From the AARP : ...  Lawmakers are considering a paid leave benefit that is funded by taxpayers.  Such paid leave benefits would be ad...

      From a TV station in the San Francisco area: It's a common mistake, but one that proved costly for a Danville man. You might say,...

     I found these recently added items on Social Security's Covid-19 website : ... I received financial assistance under the CARES Act...

     From Federal News Network: ... While the Social Security Administration has  been under pressure for not yet rolling out electronic...

     From the Social Security Administration : Although our offices are closed to the public for in-person services, we are taking step...

     From the Associated Press : At greater risk from COVID-19 , some seniors now face added anxiety due to delays obtaining Medicare co...

      Pete Buttigieg is the first Presidential candidate to issue detailed proposals to help disabled Americans. Here’s the section of hi...

Signed by Harry Truman, the first President to propose Medicare

     From National Public Radio : A quarter of a million Medicare beneficiaries may be receiving bills for as many as five months of pr...

     From Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times: When the Trump tax cut was on the verge of being enacted, I called it “the bigges...

     From the Times Record which may be in Fort Smith Arkansas, although that's hard to tell from the newspaper's website (emph...

     From Philip Moeller writing for PBS News Hour: Sharilyn – Ind.: My daughter has cancer. She is on disability and Medicare. She i...

     From the Washington Post : A new analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found out-of-pocket health-care costs for Medicare ...

     In an op ed in the Los Angeles Times Les Gapay (who has an interesting backstory ) writes: In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosev...

     The National Bureau of Economic Research has done a study on increases in life expectancy and retirement benefits in the United Stat...

     A patient dying of cancer is told her Social Security disability claim has been approved but she's also told that she must wait s...