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• Tell Your Members of Congress to Vote NO on Any “Fiscal Commission” Legislation

  August 18, 2026: If Congress fails to act, the Social Security Trust Fund will only be able to pay about 78 percent of scheduled benefits, starting in 2032. This would result in a 22 percent benefit cut for beneficiaries, a nearly $500 a month cut Read More >

• Alliance Members Push for Action to Protect and Strengthen Social Security as Financial Shortfall Looms

  August 14, 2026: Today is the 91st anniversary of the Social Security Act, which President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law on August 14, 1935. 74 million Americans receive monthly Social Security benefits, including nearly 58 million older A Read More >

• Report: Social Security Benefit Cuts Would Be Devastating for Americans

  September 12, 2025: More than half (56 percent) of Americans surveyed in a new analysis from Nationwide Financial agreed that they would “not be able to survive” if they even lost half of their monthly Social Security payment. The survey showe Read More >

• New Report: Social Security Administration Field Offices Lost An Estimated 20% of Staff This Year

  August 08, 2025: New reporting from Axios detailing the full extent of the Trump Administration’s workforce cuts in Social Security Administration field offices was published Thursday and shows how this is affecting Americans across the country. Read More >

• Social Security Administration Struggles to Provide Customer Service Amid Fallout from DOGE Cuts

  July 18, 2025: Months after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) fired thousands of experienced, hardworking Social Security Administration (SSA) workers, the agency is having trouble keeping up with calls to its 1-800 number Read More >

• Retirees Applaud House of Representatives’ Passage of Social Security Fairness Act

  December 14, 2024: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding House passage of the Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82: “Tonight the U.S. House of Representatives Read More >

• Elon Musk, Sen. Mike Lee Declare War on Social Security

  December 14, 2024: The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-UT) and Elon Musk’s attack on the Social Security benefits Americans have earned over Read More >

• Retirees Have Serious Concerns about the Selection of Frank Bisignano to Lead SSA

  December 14, 2024: Retirees Have Serious Concerns about the Selection of Frank Bisignano to Lead SSA The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding Donald Trump's nominat Read More >

• Report Shows Social Security Expansion Remains Affordable

  August 19, 2024: Democrats Have Plans to Further Strengthen Medicare and Social Security The following statement was issued by Richard Fiesta, Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans, regarding the Trustees reports on the Soci 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 regard Read More >