Social Security

• Texas Retirees Blast Ken Paxton for Calling for Social Security and Medicare Cuts, Telling Americans to ‘Suck It Up’

  October 08, 2026: DALLAS — The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans today blasted U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton after newly released audio revealed his support for cuts to federal benefit programs, including potentially Social Security and Medicare. Speaking a...Read more >

• Fight for Social Security

  October 05, 2026: Why You Must Join Texas seniors need to join our Alliance for two solid reasons: We have to win the vote on November 3 We have to enforce the vote beginning on November 4 Meetings immediately: Wednesday, October 7, 12:30PM, Join us a...Read more >

• Texas Alliance for Retired Americans Demands Answers and Condemns Paxton Campaign’s Support for Social Security Privatization

  August 21, 2026: AUSTIN, TX — The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans condemns and demands answers in light of recent reports that U.S. Senate candidate Ken Paxton’s campaign supports privatizing Social Security, letting Wall Street and billionaires gamble with ...Read more >

• Alliance Members Push for Action to Protect and Strengthen Social Security as Financial Shortfall Looms

  August 14, 2026: Today is the 91st anniversary of the Social Security Act, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law on August 14, 1935. 74 million Americans receive monthly Social Security benefits, including nearly 58 million older Americans. But these ...Read more >

• There Is Nothing Like 2026

  February 05, 2026: Over the past year, seniors have generally experienced a sickening downward trend. Texas has won the dubious title of having the most starving seniors, and food insecurity is rising rapidly. Cuts and layoffs of government service providers, especiall...Read more >

• Retirees Schedule Week of Fightback

  January 12, 2026: This week alone, Texas Seniors have major events in Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio! Protests Cuts and Layoffs January 14 January 14 is a National Day of Action for the American Federation of Government Employees. A growing number of p...Read more >

• We “Up Our Game” for 2026

  December 31, 2025: We'll be doing more of everything in 2026. Get your 2026 vote-by-mail application right away and get everybody else to do it Be ready to fight for health care, especially the "WISeR" Texas experimental program to cut Medicare benefits Unit...Read more >

• Social Security Callers Waiting Hours, Or Sometimes Days, for Help

  October 31, 2025: Seniors and people with disabilities calling the Social Security Administration (SSA) face endless looping music, long wait times, useless robot messages, and extended periods between a request and an actual callback, according to a new report from t...Read more >

• Report: Social Security Benefit Cuts Would Be Devastating for Americans

  September 12, 2025: More than half (56 percent) of Americans surveyed in a new analysis from Nationwide Financial agreed that they would “not be able to survive” if they even lost half of their monthly Social Security payment. The survey showed that beneficiaries...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Social Security Praises Its New Chatbot. Ex-Officials Say It Was Tested But Shelved Under Biden.

  September 03, 2025: John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers tend to be older, disabled, ...Read more >