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The National Committee endorses the “Women’s Retirement Protection Act” introduced by Senators Tammy Baldwin (WI) and Patty Murray (WA), which would help women overcome barriers that systematically set them back from achieving financial security.
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Data shows women’s financial futures are consistently undermined by factors like unequal pay and time out of the workforce for caregiving duties, which make it more difficult to adequately save for retirement. The “Women’s Retirement Protection Act” would address some of these challenges by extending critical protections to women’s retirement security and providing enhanced tools to ensure women can better prepare for retirement.
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Whether you’re retired or approaching retirement, our team of experts in the field of Social Security policy is available to answer your questions about benefits.
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This week’s question is: I get $13,000 a year Social Security disability and have zero wages or income. I am a disabled vet that also gets 100% VA disability. The $13,000 Social Security is tax free, right?
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Social Security Benefits
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Learn more about the Social Security program and the policies the National Committee supports that would strengthen your earned benefits.
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On Aug. 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the nation’s first major social insurance program into law. In the 88 years since then, Social Security has provided bedrock financial security for generations of retirees, people with disabilities, and their families. (Updated August 15, 2023, Market Watch, written by NCPSSM President & CEO Max Richtman)
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“Eighty-eight years of a program that has done exactly what it set out to do, and in fact much more, in terms of covering people for disability and survivorship and never missing a payment, is a remarkable achievement,” said Dan Adcock, director of government relations and policy at NCPSSM. (August 14, 2023, CNBC, Lorie Konish)
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“The lawsuits filed by the large pharmaceutical corporations to overturn Medicare drug price negotiation authority demonstrates that there is no bottom to big pharma’s greed," charges Max Richtman, President and CEO of the Washington, DC-based National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. (August 21, 2023, Rhode Island News, Herb Weiss)
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The Women's Retirement Protection Act is endorsed by the National Women’s Law Center, Pension Rights Center, AARP and the National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare. (August 17, 2023, Think Advisor, Melanie Waddell)
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In a memo, White House deputy press secretary and senior communications adviser Andrew Bates blasted Republicans' plans for cutting the deficit — a priority among the right as they try to claw back government spending and slash programs in negotiations over funding the federal government by the end of September. (August 15, 2023, Insider, Juliana Kaplan and Ayelet Sheffey)
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