Category Archives: Social Security

Man who dressed as dead mother guilty of fraud

By doris | Published: May 5, 2012

Full Story at Reuters.com (Reuters) – A man who impersonated his dead mother as part of a real estate scam – using lipstick, manicured nails and even an oxygen tank at a meeting – was convicted of fraud on Thursday and faces up to 83 years in prison, prosecutors said. Thomas Parkin, 51, was found [...]

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House budget chairman to propose Medicare, Medicaid changes

By doris | Published: April 3, 2011

Full Story at CNN.comLeave it alone, the seniors need this program. PUT BACK THE MONEY YOU TOOK OUT OF SSI AND YOU WOULD HAVE THE MONEY NOW FOR THIS PROGRAM. YOU ARE ALWAYS TRYING TO TAKE FROM THIS AND NEVER RETURN IT. CUT IT OUT. Washington (CNN) — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan said Sunday [...]

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GOP appears poised to take on entitlements

By doris | Published: March 27, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.comLEAVE SOCIAL SECURITY ALONE. THEY HAVE BORROWED ENOUGH AND NEVER PAID IT BACK. SOME PEOPLE CAN HARDLY LIVE NOW. THEY PLANNED ON THIS FOR RETIREMENT. CORAL SPRINGS, Fla. — If there’s any place where tea partiers in Congress might hesitate to call for cuts in Social Security and Medicare to shrink the [...]

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Can tiny changes save Social Security?

By doris | Published: May 18, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON – Social Security faces a $5.3 trillion shortfall over the next 75 years, but a new congressional report says the massive gap could be erased with only modest changes to payroll taxes and benefits. Some of the options are politically dangerous, such as increasing payroll taxes or reducing annual cost-of-living [...]

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Social Security payout to exceed pay-in this year

By doris | Published: March 25, 2010

The Goverment kept borrowing from SS because there was a surplus of money. They did not put it back.Now there is not enough money to pay the people that depend on it to live. They better find the money to help these older people out. Or do the not just care about the older people [...]

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