ICYMI: Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, lends her to support to Eleanor’s Hope, an initiative to protect women’s health and retirement security.
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This year marks the 50th anniversaries of Medicare and Medicaid and the 80th anniversary of Social Security. Fifty-seven percent of people on Medicare, 70 percent of adults on Medicaid and 56 percent of Social Security recipients (66 percent of those over 85) are women. Together, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid provide critical health and financial security.
via Huffington Post.
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- Medicare, combined with Social Security, has improved the economic status of older Americans and younger people with disabilities. Prior to Medicare, one - half of older Americans were uninsured and one - third were living in poverty. Today, with access to health care coverage, the poverty rate for seniors is nine percent.
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I was thrilled to join Congressman Paul Tonko, Max Richtman, President of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, Nashua Community College President Lucille Jordan, and other friends and colleagues today in launching Eleanor’s Hope in New Hampshire. This initiative, led by the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, is central to building awareness and support for women’s economic security in retirement. via Rep. Annie Kuster.
With an aim to change the national conversation from cutting Social Security and Medicare to increasing funding for the programs, the “Eleanor’s Hope” project was launched this week with the help of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
The project, named after the late former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt, held a conference call on Thursday with the Massachusetts Democrat playing a central part, considering she’s voiced support for expanding Social Security at a time when some lawmakers are looking to cut or eliminate the program.
However, some conservatives in Congress insist that relief for programs like the Older Americans Act be paid for by cutting Medicare and Medicaid. This budgetary sleight-of-hand could trade partial relief for some seniors’ programs by cutting other essential health security programs like Medicare and Medicaid, thus further eroding the tenuous economic situation many older Americans face.
Max Richtman via Huffington Post.
A year of fiscal crises repeatedly threatened benefit cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The National Committee successfully prevented a Social Security Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) cut and an increase in the Medicare eligibility age from being written into the fiscal cliff bill. We also defeated efforts to continue the two-year-old Social Security payroll tax holiday that was undermining the Social Security system.
via Entitled to Know.
The National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare’s Max Richtman emphasized the importance of talking about improving and expanding Medicare and Social Security, not just protecting them. He described how he talks to seniors across the country who are shocked that Medicare doesn’t cover, hearing, or vision care. Only by highlighting these gaps in coverage can we work to change them.
via Justice in Aging.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, received an endorsement from one of the country’s top senior citizen advocacy groups when he joined a dozen Central Oregon seniors for a Thursday discussion on Social Security and Medicare.
“When he came to see us in 2007, your senator made a pledge that he would not do anything that would undermine Social Security, and he has lived up to it,” said Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Protect Social Security and Medicare.
Today’s announcement that there will be no Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase next year, for only the third time in 40 years, means that millions of seniors who rely on their Social Security to get by will once again find their expenses outpacing their Social Security benefit.
via Entitled to Know.
Tens of millions of Social Security beneficiaries will not get a raise in 2016, the government announced on Thursday…
…Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said the lack of COLA will be especially harmful, because it is coupled with an increase in Medicare Part B premiums for some seniors. Those premiums are automatically deducted from seniors’ Social Security checks.
“If accurate inflation protection for seniors is truly our goal, Congress needs to adopt a fully developed CPI for the elderly,” Richtman said in a statement. “Until then, we urge Congress to act quickly to mitigate the devastating Medicare hikes headed for millions of Americans who can’t afford them.”
via Huffington Post.
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Today’s announcement that there will be no Social Security
cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) increase next year, for only the third
time in 40 years, means that millions of seniors who rely on their
Social Security to get by will once again find their expenses outpacing
their Social Security benefit.
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