Social Security News

On August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act -- a monumental legislative achievement that pro...

      You’ve probably heard that the President has fired the Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) after receiving a disappointi...

     From the Washington Post : “We’re also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program ...

      From  “ Fact Sheet ” issued by the White House yesterday: Today , President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum aimed at ...

      From HuffPost : A week after Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed publicly with President Donald Trump at the White House over transgender a...

      I missed this one. Last week Trump ordered an end to Treasury issued paper checks as of September 30 of this year.       I think it...

      In his State of the Union address Donald Trump said that "1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159, and over 130,000 people, accor...

  Subject:  Non-bargaining Unit Employees - Return to In-Person Work and Cancellation of Expanded Flexible Bands On Monday, January 20, ...

      One thing that has helped me understand Donald Trump, both in his first term in office and now, is Josh Marshall’ s theory of performa...

      Just a reminder: Donald Trump has  never bothered to file a claim  for his own Social Security retirement benefits. Of course it’s pos...

      After Donald Trump’s first inauguration, things were a bit disorganized at the White House, so disorganized that it took nine months ...

     The  Associated Press is reporting that President Biden will sign into law today the bill to end the Windfall Elimination Provision an...

      The rumor is that the President will sign the bill ending the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset on Monday.

       It is a long-standing tradition that federal offices are closed on the day of the funeral of a former President. At Social Security, ...

      The bill to end the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset has passed its final Congressional step and will ...

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LBJ at SSA Headquarters       The recent visit to Social Security headquarters by former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi reminds me that t...

      From President Biden's budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025, which begins on October 1, 2024: ... The Budget provides an increase...

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      You may have noticed that I'm not posting much recently. That doesn't have to do with me. There is little to report. Things ar...