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• Cooling Assistance for Low-Income Seniors Eliminated During Anniversary of Deadly Heat Wave

  July 20, 2015: CHICAGO, IL – Governor Bruce Rauner marked this month’s 20th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave by withholding funds that provide cooling assistance to the state’s most vulnerable residents. Many of the 1995 heat wave’s 739 fatalities we...Read more >

• Four Hundred Senior Activists to Descend on Washington This Week

  July 06, 2015: Washington, DC - Beginning on Tuesday, July 7, at 1:00 pm, four hundred activist members of the Alliance for Retired Americans from across the country will sharpen their political organizing and advocacy skills at a four-day conference at the Washing...Read more >

• King v. Burwell Decision a Win for Those Aged 50 – 64

  June 25, 2015: Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Premiums Affordable for those not Eligible for Medicare The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the ...Read more >

• Bad Trade Deal Blocked in a Temporary Victory for Seniors

  June 12, 2015: The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, following the U.S. House votes on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Fast Track Authority legislative package. “Today’s votes in t...Read more >

• Stop Fast Track Now!

  June 03, 2015: The House Republican leadership is pushing to bring Fast Track legislation for the job-killing, retiree-hurting, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal to a vote soon. The Fast Track bill has already passed in the Senate, and if approved by th...Read more >

• Retiree Voting Record Released

  May 26, 2015: Washington, DC – The Alliance for Retired Americans today released its 2014 voting record report which scored every U.S. Representative and Senator on key issues affecting current and future retirees. The voting record examined 10 key Senate votes ...Read more >

• Senate Passes Budget that Cuts $5.3 Trillion

  May 08, 2015: The Senate voted 51 to 48 on Tuesday to pass the first joint congressional budget plan in six years, ratifying a 10-year blueprint that would cut spending by $5.3 trillion, overhaul Medicaid by turning it into block grants, and repeal President Obama...Read more >

• Retiree Organization Warns That Prescription Drug Costs May Increase Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

  April 15, 2015: Fast Track Bill is a Bad Deal for Seniors The following statement was issued today by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, in anticipation of the “fast track” trade promotion authority bill by Senate Financ...Read more >

• House Republican Budget is a Frontal Assault on the Needs of Seniors

  March 17, 2015: Statement of Richard Fiesta, Executive Director the Alliance for Retired Americans regarding the House Republican Budget “The budget plan put forward by House Republicans today is a frontal assault on the needs of seniors, persons with disabilit...Read more >

• Early Retirees Have Much at Stake in King v. Burwell

  March 04, 2015: Access to Health Care and Retirement Security at Stake for people like Bonnie Mathias of Dallas Washington, D.C. - Continued, affordable health insurance for many early retirees is among the issues at stake as the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arg...Read more >