ARA Issues

• Pension Spending During Covid Pandemic Provided $1.3 Trillion to the Economy

  January 11, 2023:   Retirees who spent their public and private sector pension benefits in 2020 generated $1.3 trillion in total economic output, supporting nearly 6.8 million jobs across the nation, according to a report released Wednesday by the Nationa...Read more >

• Legislative Accomplishments During the 117th Congress that Benefit Older Americans

  October 10, 2022: Lowering Medicare Prescription Drug Prices, Investing in Clean Energy and Reducing Inflation:   On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Monumental in nature and of tremendous consequence for...Read more >

• Sign on to the Petition to Eliminate the GPO and WEP Provisions of Social Security

  November 22, 2021:   The Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) penalize people who have dedicated their lives to public service, including many teachers, firefighters, and police officers, by taking away benefits they, or ...Read more >

• New insurance guidelines would undermine rules of the Affordable Care Act

  December 04, 2018: Excerpts From the Washington Post Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, issued new guidance to states that would allow weakening of provisions of the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration is urgin...Read more >

• NYS Alliance for Retired Americans Delegation Attends ARA Convention in Las Vegas

  November 24, 2018: Robert Roach, Jr. and Joseph Peters, Jr. Re-elected as Alliance Leaders The Alliance’s 2018 National Membership Meeting took place in Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday through Thursday of last week. On the first day, Robert Roach, Jr., who has be...Read more >

• HEALTHCARE COMPANIES: THE LEAST DESERVING TAX-CUT WINNERS

  April 25, 2018:   Among corporations, few fare better under the new Republican tax law—while deserving it less—than big drug companies and health insurers. Both the pharmaceutical and health-insurance industries have grown rich and powerful over the year...Read more >

• NYS Congress members Collins, Reed, Tenney and Katko abandon their constituents with their vote on tax “Reform”: Representatives Donovan, King, Zeldin, Stefanik and Faso vote NO.

  November 20, 2017:   The stakes are very high. The house has begun the process of tax reform by passing a tax reform bill that hurts New Yorker's more than most states. Yet 4 of our elected representatives voted for this bill. Congressional Representatives Coll...Read more >

• Republican Tax Bill is Poison to NYS taxpayers

  November 13, 2017: Despite the Republican leadership's and President Trump's assertion of seeking to pass tax reform for the "middle class" the tax reform proposal that comes from the house and the proposal from the Senate released Friday are anything but Middle Class ...Read more >

• Activism by Seniors, including NYSARA, Contributes to the “Death” of the TPP

  November 23, 2016: The news that the White House and Republican congressional leaders have given up on passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is welcome. That the TPP would be defeated by Congress if brought to a vote signals that Trojan-horse “trade” agreemen...Read more >

• 2016 New York Legislative Session Results on Senior Issues

  September 25, 2016: The following is a list of NYSARA Priority Bills and their descriptions.  See how your Assembly member and Senator Voted on these most important Senior bills by clicking on the links at the bottom of this article. 2016 New York State Session Bil...Read more >