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Seniors went to Capitol Hill earlier this month to tell Congress why their current #SocialSecurity benefits are inadequate. Boost Social Security Now! https://www.ncpssm.org/campaigns/boost-social-security-now/ @RepJohnLarson
Investment in home and community-based care is popular and must be included in #infrastructure. Now it’s up to Congress to get it done. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/elder-care-congress.html #HCBS @nytimes
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure becomes the first black woman to lead the agency that oversees #Medicare and #Medicaid. She is a major improvement over President Trump’s CMS administrator, who undermined Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/us/politics/chiquita-brooks-lasure-medicare-medicaid.html @CMSGov
A key question that’s often left out of #retirement planning: Will seniors have enough income to afford the local cost of living?
President Biden’s 2022 spending plan is a welcome change for #seniors after four years of proposed budget cuts from Trump. https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/biden-budget-bolsters-older-americans/
“A so-called she-cession is poised to make the already existing #retirement gender gap worse,” writes @loriekonish for @cnbc. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/14/a-third-of-americans-plan-to-retire-later-due-to-covid-19-study-finds.html
As #Obamacare enrollment continues to hit record levels, let’s hope that the Supreme Court does not rip away health coverage from the millions of Americans who finally have it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/05/record-31-million-americans-have-health-care-coverage-through-affordable-care-act-white-house-says/
Retirement security is a big part of women’s economic well-being. We commit ourselves to pay equity and financial security for all women in #retirement. Learn what can be done about it at EleanorsHope.org.
“There are proposals in Congress that we support - and hopefully the Biden administration will work toward – to extend the solvency of the #SocialSecurity trust fund many decades beyond 2035. The payroll wage cap will have to be adjusted so the wealthy pay their fair share,” NCPSSM president and CEO Max Richtman tells Albuquerque radio host TJ Trout. https://www.newsradiokkob.com/tj-trout/
A new analysis by the National Institute on Retirement Security shows that #WomensRetirement income lags behind men’s. Our #EleanorsHope initiative is dedicated to helping close the gap between women & men when it comes to retirement savings and benefits. https://www.ncpssm.org/eleanors-hope/