All posts tagged "Social Security"

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  Social Security announces 2.8% benefit increase for 2019

  Medicare changes will be announced in December

  • Posted October 11, 2018
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  Most Social Security recipients in Puerto Rico to receive automatic payment

  Hurricane María damage to offices continues to be assessed

  • Posted September 25, 2017
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  AP FACT CHECK: Trump no factor in Social Security increase

  WASHINGTON — Widely circulated online reports crediting President Donald Trump for 2017 increases in retirees’ Social Security checks don’t accurately portray how the system works. Social Security payments are based on a government measure of inflation, and...

  • Posted March 28, 2017
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  Trump Budget Pick Says Benefit Programs must be Changed

  Mulvaney also faced questions on his failure to pay more than $15,000 in payroll taxes for a household worker more than a decade ago

  • Posted January 24, 2017
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  Congress Ushers in New Era of All-Republican Rule

  WASHINGTON – Congress ushers in a new era of all-Republican rule. On Tuesday at noon, with plenty of pomp and pageantry, members of the 115th Congress will be sworn in, with an emboldened GOP intent on unraveling...

  • Posted January 3, 2017
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  Social Security Recipients to Get Tiny Increase in Benefits

  WASHINGTON — Millions of Social Security recipients and federal retirees will get a 0.3 percent increase in monthly benefits next year, the fifth year in a row that older Americans will have to settle for historically low...

  • Posted October 18, 2016
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  WHY IT MATTERS: Social Security

  WASHINGTON – THE ISSUE: More than 60 million retirees, disabled workers, spouses and children rely on monthly Social Security benefits. That’s nearly one in five Americans. The trustees who oversee Social Security say the program has enough...

  • Posted September 27, 2016
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  Bernier Applauds Legislative Approval of Retirement System Bills

  SAN JUAN – Popular Democratic Party president and gubernatorial candidate David Bernier said the road toward stability for the teachers’ and public employees’ retirement systems has begun following legislative approval of bills he introduced. “The allocations approved...

  • Posted July 2, 2016
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  Draft of Dems’ Policy Positions Reflects Sanders’ Influence

  Adopts "modernized version of Glass-Steagall"

  • Posted June 25, 2016
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  On More than One Issue, GOP’s Trump Sounds Like a Democrat

  Sounds like a Democrat on trade, national defense, taxes and social security

  • Posted May 15, 2016