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Social Security COLA Increase of About 1.5 Percent Now Expected
Senior citizens and others on Medicare will find out their pay increase for 2014 on Wednesday, October 30. The Department of Labor says that is the day it will release the Consumer Price Index for September, which is the last…
Republicans Lose, But Voters Win If Congress Is Forced To Do Its Job
By now everybody agrees it was a boneheaded idea to try and roll back Obamacare by threatening to shut down the federal government. But I was quietly supporting the Tea Party for one reason. In their failed attempt at legislative…
Debt Default Deal Sets the Stage for Intensified Assault on Social Programs
The bill passed by Congress late Wednesday reopening the federal government and temporarily lifting the debt ceiling establishes the modus operandi for a bipartisan deal to deepen cuts in social spending and initiate an historic attack on the core social…
Yellen Should Raise Interest Rates for Retirees
For the past several years the U.S. government, courtesy of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, has been looking at interest rates through the wrong end of a telescope, and watching them get smaller and smaller until they have all but…
Government reopening sees Pa. parks, offices abuzz
Federal offices and national parks in Pennsylvania reopened on Thursday, a day after U.S. lawmakers approved legislation to end a 16-day partial government shutdown that idled thousands of federal employees in the state while inconveniencing tourists and costing businesses that…
Hiking Defense Spending For Social Security Cuts Is A ‘Stupid Trade’
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has no interest in a budget deal that trades sequestration relief for entitlement cuts, believing that future spending reductions scheduled to hit the Pentagon give Democrats the upper hand. Instead, he told The Huffington…
Defusing the Ticking Bomb of Social Security
Social Security is the single largest program of the federal government, accounting for more than 20 percent of all federal spending in 2012. Indeed, by some measures, it could be considered the largest government program in the world, providing more…
5 facts about Social Security
As negotiations continue between Congress and the White House on resolving the fiscal impasse that has shut down large swaths of the federal government and threatens a default on U.S. government debt, some are hoping for an eventual “grand bargain” that would…
How Possible U.S. Default Could Affect You
U.S. Senate leaders have reached a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling through February 7, but the deal still has to be approved by Congress and signed by President Obama. If the debt ceiling is not raised and the U.S.…
Social Security Discontinues Visits to Several Nevada Contact Stations
The City of Mesquite has been officially notified that the Social Security is discontinuing its face-to-face visits to Beatty, Pioche, Caliente, Alamo, Moapa, Tonopah, Mesquite and Overton Nevada. The final visit will be in October 2013. According to Las Vegas District…