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• Sen. Cullerton: Close Corporate Tax Loopholes!

  May 23, 2013: We can end the giveaways that let corporations skip paying their fair share by hiding profits overseas. It’s more important than ever—today, while lawmakers at the State Capitol are talking about harmful budget cuts, the New York Times is reporti...Read more >

• Tell Your U.S. Representative to Co-Sponsor the Resolution Opposing the Chained CPI

  April 16, 2013: Today, Representative David Cicilline (D-RI) introduced a bill that opposes the use of the Chained CPI to calculate COLAs for Social Security benefits. Please ask your Member of Congress to co-sponsor this bill. Please do your part to stop the cha...Read more >

• Tell President Obama: Social Security COLA cut chains seniors to poorer life

  April 08, 2013: The President plans to include a major Social Security benefit cut in his budget proposal that will be released on Wednesday. The chained CPI will cut the cost of living adjustment (COLA) for current and future retirees. Click HERE to tell Preside...Read more >

• Save home care services NOW

  March 25, 2013: On March 15th, the Illinois Department on Aging ran out of funding for the Community Care Program. More than 80,000 seniors in Illinois depend on a Community Care home care provider to help them live independently. Call your state legislator now t...Read more >

• Tell Your U.S. Senators to Stop the Sequester Today!

  February 26, 2013: Unless Congress acts this week, drastic automatic spending cuts, known as the sequester, will go into effect.  Programs vital to seniors like Meals on Wheels, cutting edge medical research, and food safety inspections would be severely cut back.  W...Read more >

• In Fiscal Cliff Delay, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid Remain at Risk

  January 02, 2013: The fiscal cliff deal passed by Congress last night is a breakthrough in beginning to restore tax fairness. It raises over $700 billion over 10 years by ending the Bush tax cuts for families making over $450,000 a year. The deal does not cut Social S...Read more >

• 2012 Social Security Trustees’ Report Released

  April 23, 2012: Today, the Social Security Trustees released their annual report on the financial status of Social Security. The report, issued every year, projects Social Security’s income and outgo for the next 75 years. Once again, this year shows that Social S...Read more >

• Paul Ryan Budget Round Two – Cuts to Medicare & Social Security

  March 26, 2012: Last week, Congressman Paul Ryan released the Republican's proposed 2013 federal budget. Their proposal would expand tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, while pulling away critical Medicare and Social Security protections from the middle clas...Read more >

• Social Security COLA announcement clouded by looming threat in Congress

  October 19, 2011: Today, the Social Security Administration announced that monthly Social Security benefits will increase 3.6 percent in 2012. Additionally, due to an increase in average wages, the maximum amount of wages subject to the Social Security tax will inc...Read more >

• The Debt Deal for Seniors

  August 03, 2011: This afternoon, the long-anticipated deal on raising the debt ceiling is expected to pass out of the Senate and signed into law. The good news about the deal is that your letters, emails, protests and calls to Congress have temporarily protected S...Read more >