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Byline: Medora Lee, USA TODAY People on Social Security will receive a much smaller bump of 3.2% in their benefits checks next year, as the cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, after [...]

The Republicans who now control the House will soon try to slash Social Security and Medicare. They plan to achieve this by holding the economy hostage, threatening to create a [...]

Byline: Amy B Wang Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., has suggested that Social Security and Medicare be eliminated as federal entitlement programs, and that they should instead become programs approved by [...]

Byline: Paul Davidson, USA TODAY After years of puny increases in their Social Security checks, older Americans will likely get the equivalent of a big raise next year. The 68 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Connecticut Rep. John Larson: House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman John B. Larson (CT-01) commended the House [...]

Byline: Mark Miller In one of its last moves of 2020, the U.S.Congress punted on a terrific opportunity to help people navigate Medicare enrollment. A little-noticed section of the $2.3 [...]

WASHINGTON -- The following information was released by the office of Pennsylvania Rep. Susan Wild: Today, U.S. Representative Susan Wild (PA-07) announced House passage of $100 million in increased funding [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman;Greg Sargent You may remember that when he ran for president in 2016, Donald Trump said a lot of unusual things, among which were regular pledges that unlike [...]

The Draft Law on the State Social Insurance Budget (BASS) for 2019 and the draft mandatory health insurance funds for next year were voted at the Parliament's second reading sitting [...]

Byline: Erica Werner;Damian Paletta;David Weigel Democrats issued warnings Wednesday about the peril Republicans pose to Medicare and Social Security, accusing the GOP of plotting to cut critical safety net programs [...]

The social security sector has once again been shaken. Allowing the appeal by the European Commission, the Advocate-General of the EC Court of Justice, Juliane Kokott, recommends cancelling the inscription [...]