Press Release Archive 2007

Loophole in Senate Immigration Bill to Pay $966 Billion in Social Security to Two Million Illegal Workers
TREA Senior Citizens League to Testify Today Before House Subcommittee on Immigration Would Still Receive Benefits

Social Security COLA Doesn't Fairly Reflect Seniors' Costs
It's a well-known fact among seniors: The longer you spend in retirement, the less your Social Security check covers.

Social Security "Totalization" Agreement with Mexico Would Cost $207 Billion, New Study Says
New Study Uncovers Millions of Mexican Beneficiaries Who Could Receive Billions Based on Illegal Work

Alzheimer's Research Cut Despite Huge Potential Cost to Medicare and Medicaid
There are now more than 5 million people with Alzheimer's disease - a 10 percent increase from the last official tally just five years ago.

48 Million Seniors Forecast to Receive Second Smallest Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment Ever in 2008, According to This Week's Trustees Report
Trustees Suggest COLA Could Also Be Smallest Ever at 1.2 Percent

Reimportation of Less Costly Prescription Drugs Would Provide Greater Medicare Drug Savings
Seniors would receive greater Medicare drug savings if allowed the option to import less costly FDA-approved prescription drugs from countries where drugs often sell for substantially less than they do here.

Illegal Workers Could Access Billions in Social Security Money, Says Social Security Administration
New "Earnings Suspense File" Report Shows 93 Percent Growth to $585 Billion Over Five Most Recent Years

Loophole Allows Immigrants Social Security For Illegal Earnings Alexandria, VA (March 6, 2007)
A loophole in the law threatens to add unsustainable new costs to Social Security and Medicare should Congress enact "temporary guest worker" immigration legislation, warns one of the nation's largest nonpartisan seniors groups.


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