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• What is the Payroll Tax and How Does it Effect Seniors

  May 20, 2020: The payroll tax supports the country's two biggest safety nets: Social Security and Medicare. Workers will pay 6.2% on the first $137,700 of their wage and salary income into Social Security this year. And they will pay 1 Read More >

• The Postal Service Crisis and It’s Importance to Seniors

  May 20, 2020:   The Problem: In 2006 Congress passed a law that imposed extraordinary costs on the U.S. Postal Service.  The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA) required the USPS to create a $72 billion fund to pay Read More >

• Absentee Balloting in New York State

  April 20, 2020: Because of the COVID 19 pandemic NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order concerning the June 23, 2020 primary. **Pursuant to Executive Order 202.15 issued April 9, 2020, voters may request and vote via an Read More >

• KHN: Federal Judge Rules Medicare Patients Can Challenge ‘Observation Care’ Status

  March 30, 2020: By Susan Jaffe Hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries who have been denied coverage for nursing home stays because their time in the hospital was changed from “inpatient” to “observation care” can now appeal to Read More >

• NYSARA Postpones Biennial Election Convention Until June 17, 20

  March 17, 2020: New York's Public Health Emergency around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation suggests seniors especially follow the recommendations guard against infection outlined below. On Sunday the CDC made a reccomendation that there s Read More >

• NYSARA Postpones Biennial Election Convention Until June 17, 2020

  March 17, 2020:   New York's Public Health Emergency around the Coronavirus (COVID-19) situation suggests seniors especially follow the recommendations guard against infection outlined below. On Sunday the CDC made a reccomend Read More >

• ‘Hobnobbing With Billionaires in Davos,’ Trump Admits—If Reelected—He Will Seek to Cut Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare

  January 23, 2020: "It'll be toward the end of the year," Trump said from Davos, Switzerland. "And at the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that's actually the easiest of all things, if you look, cause it's such a big percentage." Read More >

• Who Benefits From Medicare? In Some Way, Just About Everyone.

  January 20, 2020: Medicare is often at the forefront of national discourse.  However, much of the discussion tends to ignore young Americans under the assumption that they are not affected by, or do not care about Medicare's  future and the imp Read More >

• Suit Challenging ACA Legally Suspect, But Threatens Loss of Coverage for Millions

  January 20, 2020: A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon announce a decision in Texas v. United States, the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The appeals court heard oral arg Read More >