October 09, 2013
A Clean Continuing Resolution and NO Cuts to Seniors’ Programs
All across the country, Americans are fed up with the government shutdown. Your U.S. Representative’s vote could be the difference between ending the shutdown with a “grand bargain” that dismantles our retirement security inch by inch, or protecting our retirement security for years to come. Click here to tell Your U.S. Representative you don’t want to be part of the last generation to retire.
Urge support of a clean Continuing Resolution that re-opens the federal government, does not give into the hostage-taking demands of the House Leadership, and does not include cuts to seniors’ programs. Click here now to end the shutdown by sending a letter to Your U.S. Representative.
The chained CPI Social Security cost-of-living adjustment formula change is currently being discussed as a component of a “grand bargain.” The Alliance for Retired Americans calls on our Representatives to oppose any cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits, including any shifting of health care costs to beneficiaries. We should improve Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid benefits, not cut them, because working people and retirees need more economic security, not less.
Whether shutting down the government to protest Obamacare or using a debt crisis to force the chained CPI on seniors, Americans have had enough. We are standing up for our hard-earned benefits and will not allow a government shutdown to force cuts to our Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid!
If the shutdown and debt crisis are merged in the coming weeks, and the debt ceiling is not raised, seniors also may not receive Social Security checks or Medicare reimbursements. Click here to tell Your U.S. Representative to stop holding your retirement security hostage.
The Alliance’s 4 million members are watching closely and remaining hopeful that Washington finds a way to do the right thing. And that certainly doesn’t mean wrongly trying to solve the country’s budget problems on the backs of seniors.