Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Social Security. Show all posts

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Social Security benefits to rise 3.2 percent


Social Security benefits will increase by 3.2 percent in 2024, marking a much smaller cost-of-living adjustment than the past two years amid cooling inflation.....MORE

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

2024’s Social Security COLA increase may be larger than previously estimated: How much can beneficiaries expect?


The next cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients is projected to be slightly higher than estimated in previous months, though still dramatically less than the 8.7% beneficiaries received in 2023, the Senior Citizen’s League predicts.....MORE

Sunday, August 27, 2023

DEATH WISH: Ron DeSantis and his contempt for senior citizens


Social security is at risk, and the conservative answer seems to be finding ways to avoid paying out to those senior citizens who’ve spent their lives paying in.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is again using life expectancy as an excuse to cut social security — though he’s now using the exact opposite argument from what he presented a decade ago. Back then, DeSantis suggested that with increasing life expectancy, social security must be cut, and now, he’s instead citing the shorter lifespans of today’s senior citizens.

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Sunday, July 16, 2023

Ron DeSantis keeps explaining away old Social Security, Medicare stances


“So when people say that we’re going to somehow cut seniors, so that is totally not true,” DeSantis added. “Talking about making changes for people in their thirties or forties so that the program is viable: You know, that’s a much different thing and that’s something that I think that there’s going to need to be discussions on.”....MORE

Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Social Security COLA increase may be smaller than previously estimated, senior group says


The next cost-of-living increase for Social Security recipients is likely to be the lowest in years, the Senior Citizen’s League predicts.....MORE

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Job cuts, no Social Security checks: How consumers could be pinched by a US government default


All the hand-wringing in Washington over raising the debt limit can seem far removed from the lives of everyday Americans, but they could end up facing huge consequences.

If the economy tanked due to default, more than 8 million people could lose their jobs, government officials estimate. Millions of Social Security beneficiaries, veterans and military families could lose their monthly payments. Vital federal services including border and air traffic control could be disrupted if workers can’t get their government paychecks.

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