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• KFF Health News: Biden Administration Bars Medical Debt From Credit Scores

  January 08, 2025: The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ...Read more >

• Good News!

  January 07, 2025: Even though we have much to celebrate and a lot to talk about, we can’t do our regular statewide ZOOM meeting from Dallas on Wednesday. We’ll do it Thursday at 11AM, register here. We’re all celebrating the success of the Social Security Fai...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Resources Are Expanding for Older Adults on Their Own

  December 13, 2024: Jeff Kromrey, 69, will sit down with his daughter the next time she visits and show her how to access his online accounts if he has an unexpected health crisis. Gayle Williams-Brett, 69, plans to tackle a project she’s been putting off for month...Read more >

• Help Us Help Texas Seniors

  December 03, 2024: Dear Texan, Your support for Texas Alliance for Retired Americans is vital to protecting the rights of seniors into 2025. Please consider making your first donation or increasing the level of support you already established. We ask all members ...Read more >

• Strengthening Gulf Coast Retirees

  August 29, 2024: Gulf Coast retirees have several opportunities to create a strong movement around Houston. Retiree table at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic on Saturday On-Line Meeting Saturday afternoon "All Hands" special meeting and news conference at 10Am...Read more >

• Let’s Talk, then “Do Something” in Texas

  August 24, 2024:   Kenneth Williams is flying home from the Chicago convention today, Saturday, August 24. Tomorrow, Sunday at 2PM, he will lead an on-line discussion about what the Democratic Part...Read more >

• Celebrating and Working Even Harder

  August 14, 2024: Across Texas, retirees are celebrating today for it is the anniversary of the best government program ever invented: Social Security. Our chapters in every metropolitan area are holding parties and other events. Everybody can join the Austin Social S...Read more >

• Celebrate What We Have, and Struggle for More

  August 08, 2024: Texas retirees celebrated the anniversaries of Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security, July 30 and August 14 respectively. The Austin Chapter made arrangements to bring a table to different organizations and events. Most chapters combined the two anni...Read more >

• Win for Texas Seniors

  July 23, 2024: Dallas TARA Chapter is holding a fund raising luncheon at 12:15PM on August 7th at the Charco Broil, 413 W Jefferson Blvd. We'll be honoring Judy Bryant, our organizer who just got out of hospital, and Social Security's birthday. Congressman Marc Vea...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >