Jun 20, 2022
Medicare is part of the Social Security Administration (SSA), so if you need to enroll in Medicare, that’s whom you contact. But in recent months, phone lines at the SSA were experiencing major technical issues, resulting in busy signals and preventing some...
Jul 26, 2021
In December 2018, the Social Security Administration (SSA) had a nasty surprise for Laura Marshall (not her real name), a 74-year-old woman just scraping by while living in senior citizen housing in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood: The agency demanded that she...
Mar 23, 2020
For years people have been worried about Social Security’s future, but what is the actual outlook? According to the federal government, unless Congress acts to intervene, Social Security shortfalls are expected beginning in 2035. Social Security retirement benefits...
Nov 18, 2019
The Social Security Administration has announced a 1.6 percent increase in benefits in 2020, nearly half of last year’s change. The small rise has advocates questioning whether the government is using the proper method to calculate the cost of living for older...
Jul 25, 2017
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbS_evLkfXc[/embedyt] As the United States Senate today takes up a Motion to Proceed with debate about repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, many local families battling cancer fear the worst. Families with...
May 2, 2016
May is Mental Health Month. The theme for 2016’s Mental Health Month is Life with a Mental Illness. The national organization Mental Health America is calling on individuals to share what life with a mental illness feels like for them in words, pictures and...
