Retirement Security

• 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 >

• 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 >

• We’re Changing Addresses

  April 04, 2024: Illness in our beloved Treasurer, Elaine Jones, has caused the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans to change our address to: Post Office Box 225091 Dallas Texas 75222-5091 Keep those checks coming. On-line payments have not changed and ar...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Enthusiastically Endorses Joe Biden for Reelection

  January 30, 2024: Washington, DC -- Citing President Biden’s record of commitment to retirement security for every American, the Alliance for Retired Americans, a national grassroots advocacy organization, today endorsed Joe Biden for reelection as President and Kam...Read more >

• Texas Retiree Election Results

  November 11, 2022: Election results show that voters have stood up against all anti-democratic attacks. Big money, gerrymandering, lackluster office holders, and the worst voter suppression since Jim Crow did not succeed in breaking our faith in democracy. TARA activis...Read more >

• Every Texan Needs Health Insurance!

  April 20, 2022: Since Obamacare was first passed, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans has urged Texas politicians to take the free federal dollars available to expand Medicaid. At least a million of the most needy Texans would get health coverage, but Texas politic...Read more >

• #Texasretirees Can get 2nd Booster

  April 06, 2022: People 50+ and certain immunocompromised individuals are now eligible for a 2nd COVID-19 booster shot. Update on COVID-19 booster shots In case you missed it: If yo...Read more >

• Rate Your Congresspersons!

  February 17, 2022: The National Alliance for Retired Americans closely monitors the U.S. Congress. Their evaluation of votes critical to retirees is published every year, and the new one came out on February 16. The summary is easy because of the ugly polarization i...Read more >

• Texas Retirees Stand Against Voter Suppression Legislation

  April 01, 2021: Seniors Demand that state legislators vote against the bills AUSTIN – The Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, with 146,000 members statewide, is demanding that state legislators oppose bills such as SB 7 and HB 6, which will make it more difficu...Read more >