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• Things New York Seniors Need to Know About the Big Awful Budget Bill Passed by Republicans That Have Been Passed Over or Hidden.

  July 07, 2025:   1.    The Senate Bill Increases the Cuts to Medicaid to $1.1 trillion.  Almost $300 billion more than the awful House bill. (63% of nursing home residents use Medicaid to pay) 2.   Medicaid Cuts do not take place until after th...Read more >

• NYS Comptroller DiNapoli: Cuts to SNAP Program in the Big Awful Bill Means More New Yorkers Without Enough Food

  July 07, 2025:   Proposed federal changes to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s largest program helping households obtain food, would increase costs to state governments, limit eligibility and reduce the v...Read more >

• The Federal Budget is an Assault on New York The US House and Senate just passed a budget that will hurt working New Yorkers in order to maintain tax cuts for the rich. By the Fiscal Policy Institute

  July 07, 2025:   The U.S. Congress just passed a federal budget that will cost the State of New York over $15 billion per year, kick 1.5 million New Yorkers off their health insurance, eliminate benefits for up to 1 million food stamp rec...Read more >

• Social Security Administration Updates Website to Include New Office Closures

  July 04, 2025: The Social Security Administration has updated its “Office Closings and Emergencies” page to list several field offices as “only able to provide assistance by telephone until further notice.” These include the Hoboken and Toms River offices ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Republican Megabill Will Mean Higher Health Costs for Many Americans

  July 03, 2025: President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” cuts federal spending on Medicaid and Affordable Care Act marketplaces by about $1 trillion over a decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, threatening the physical and ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

  June 18, 2025: On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and ...Read more >

• KFF Health News: As Cannabis Users Age, Health Risks Appear To Grow

  June 12, 2025: Benjamin Han, a geriatrician and addiction medicine specialist at the University of California-San Diego, tells his students a cautionary tale about a 76-year-old patient who, like many older people, struggled with insomnia. “She had problems fa...Read more >

• KFF Health News: Role Reversal – Millions of Kids Are Caregivers for Elders. Why Their Numbers Might Grow.

  June 02, 2025: ST. PAUL, Minn. — High school senior Joshua Yang understands sacrifice. When he was midway through 10th grade, his mom survived a terrible car crash. But her body developed tremors, and she lost mobility. After countless appointments, doctors diagn...Read more >

• Social Security Phone Service Changes Will Create Unnecessary Burdens

  May 30, 2025: The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)’s Social Security phone service restrictions will make it harder for seniors to access customer service support, according to new data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Social Secur...Read more >

• Drug Industry Quietly Funds “Patient Advocacy” Groups to Fight Medicare Drug Price Negotiations

  May 23, 2025: A new investigation by Patients for Affordable Drugs (P4AD) has uncovered a troubling tactic used by the pharmaceutical industry to protect profits and keep drug prices high: secretly funding so-called “patient advocacy” groups. The report pro...Read more >