Retirement Security
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Texas Issues: Should We Be All Things to All People?
April 20, 2016: Texas issues: Why We Aren’t “All Things to All People.” When the Texas Alliance for Retired Americans began to rack up some modest success, people started asking us to take on more issues. When an organization only has a few people, nobody c...Read more >
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Seniors and Veterans Demand a Vote on the SAVE Benefits Act
March 09, 2016: [flagallery gid=3] Today Maryland/DC Alliance member Susan Taylor spoke at an event on Capitol Hill urging the Senate to vote on S. 2251, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren's SAVE Benefits Act - providing seniors a one-time payment of $581. The amount is...Read more >
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Gallup Poll: Confidence in Social Security is on the Rise
March 07, 2016: Polls are showing an increased optimism that Social Security is in solid financial shape and the public is increasingly saying that they will need to rely on the program during retirement. According to a 2015 Gallup poll, 36% of non-retirees said tha...Read more >
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Trump Misleads About Social Security Fraud
February 19, 2016: Donald Trump is misleading people about the prevalence of Social Security fraud. At a recent Republican presidential debate in Greenville, South Carolina, he said, “'thousands and thousands of people’ over the age of 106 are receiving Social ...Read more >
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Kasich and Jeb Bush Mean Trouble for Seniors
February 11, 2016: John Kasich and Jeb Bush mean trouble for seniors and retirees. The New Hampshire primary results are in, and the top four for the Republicans were businessman Donald Trump, Gov. John Kasich (Ohio), Sen. Ted Cruz (TX), and former Governor Jeb Bush (F...Read more >
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Silver Tsunami to Bring 25 Million More Medicare Beneficiaries by 2036
January 27, 2016: [caption id="attachment_3359" align="alignnone" width="300"] Cartoon by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator[/caption] The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects that Medicare enrollment will grow by more than 30 percent over the next ten yea...Read more >
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Dallas Chapter of TARA Plans to Fight for Retiree Rights
August 03, 2015: DALLAS TARA CHAPTER MEETING Wednesday, Aug 5, 12:30P APWU HALL, 2010 POSTAL WAY, DALLAS, TEXAS, 75212 (map) Please join us Wednesday. We'll recap our very successful series of Medicare Celebrations in Texas. We'll also make plans to k...Read more >
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Austin Reports a Terrific Medicare Event
July 30, 2015: This comes in from Glenn Scott, President of the Austin Chapter of Texas Alliance for Retired Americans: Hello all! We had a terrific event on Saturday. We have put Austin TARA on the Austin/Central Texas political and advocacy map! Over 14...Read more >
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Teacher’s Retirement at Risk
April 28, 2015: The President of the Texas Federation of Teachers, Linda Bridges, has warned teacher retirees about HB 2506 in the Texas House Pension Committee. She writes, "This is a bill Texas AFT will strongly oppose. A defined contribution plan is a bad idea....Read more >
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Texans Participating in White House Conference on Aging
March 27, 2015: President Obama is holding six regional conferences to discuss seniors' views. The Alliance for Retired Americans is organizing several more so that the President can get a larger view of what is happening with seniors across the land. Organizer Judy...Read more >