Tag: social security
Poll: Most Voters Would Rather Cut Spending Than Raise Taxes
(Brett Rowland, The Center Square) – American voters would rather see lawmakers cut government spending than increase taxes, but new poll results show the...
CBO Projects Social Security Funds to Be Exhausted by 2033 without...
(The Center Square) Fresh projections from the Congressional Budget Office show the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund would be exhausted by 2033 if benefits are...
Social Security Spends $250M on a System It Doesn’t Use
(Adam Andrzejewski, RealClear Wire) When reviewing applications for disability benefits, the Social Security Administration consults an obsolete directory last updated in 1977, despite having spent...
White House DELETES Tweet Bragging About Social Security After Being Fact-Checked
(Infowars) Joe Biden’s White House deleted a tweet Wednesday shortly after Twitter attached a disclaimer fact-checking a false claim about Social Security benefits increasing.
“Seniors...
Government’s War on Savings Ramps Up
(Gary M. Galles, American Institute for Economic Research) There has long been a cottage industry of telling Americans they don’t save enough. One of many Wall...
Social Security Boost Seen as Unlikely to Help Dems at Polls
(AP) The news that 70 million people will see an 8.7% boost in their Social Security checks next year came just weeks before Election...
Social Security Benefits to Jump by 8.7% Next Year
(AP) Millions of Social Security recipients will get an 8.7% boost in their benefits in 2023, a historic increase but a gain that will...
‘Financial Drowning’: Social Security to Give Seniors Historic Raise Due to...
(The Center Square) The Social Security Administration will increase benefit payments this week to respond to rising inflation, analysts say.
The agency is expected to...
Social Security Steams Closer to Crisis
(Stark Realities) At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and...
Social Security COLA Set to Jump Next Year
(Associated Press) Rising inflation is expected to lead to a sizeable increase in Social Security's annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, for 2022. Exactly how...
