Retirement Security

• Forget Ringing the Button for the Nurse. Patients Now Stay Connected by Wearing One.

  August 19, 2024: HOUSTON — Patients admitted to Houston Methodist Hospital get a monitoring device about the size of a half-dollar affixed to their chest — and an unwitting role in the expanding use of artificial intelligence in health care. The slender, batte...Read more >

• Stranded in the ER, Seniors Await Hospital Care and Suffer Avoidable Harm

  August 19, 2024: Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises. Even when physicians determine these patients need ...Read more >

• Trump-Vance: Another Step Toward Retirement Insecurity

  August 19, 2024: Selection of J.D. Vance as Vice Presidential Nominee Deepens Fears that Trump Would Cut Social Security, Medicare Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, released the following statement regarding Donald Trump’s...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Enthusiastically Endorses Kamala Harris for President

  August 19, 2024: Washington, DC -- Citing her record of commitment to strengthening retirement security, the Alliance for Retired Americans, a national grassroots advocacy organization, today endorsed Kamala Harris to be President of the United States. The Allianc...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

  July 11, 2024: What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care? The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. “It’s on our minds a whole lot because of our age and because everything keeps getting more expens...Read more >

• Alliance for Retired Americans Enthusiastically Endorses Joe Biden for Reelection

  January 30, 2024: Washington, DC -- Citing President Biden’s record of commitment to retirement security for every American, the Alliance for Retired Americans, a national grassroots advocacy organization, today endorsed Joe Biden for reelection as President and Kam...Read more >

• Older Americans Month: Aging Unbound in Illinois

  May 24, 2023: Each May, the Administration for Community Living (ACL) leads the nationwide observance of Older Americans Month. The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans, along with our National Alliance, other state chapters, and the Department of Aging, along ...Read more >

• Congressional GOP Members Holding Older Americans Hostage with Default on America Act

  May 16, 2023: The Alliance for Retired Americans calls for an increase to the debt ceiling with no strings attached. However, Congressional GOP members are supporting Speaker McCarthy's Default on America Act (H.R. 2811) which would have devasting effects on older...Read more >

• Friday Alert

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• IARA Mobilizes to Repeal GPO & WEP

  May 25, 2022: The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans joined national mobilizations, including the National Education Association for a day of action on May 24th, to call for the repeal of GPO & WEP. The Government Pension Offset (GPO) reduces the Socia...Read more >