Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Social Security

New £50 winter heating payments start landing in bank accounts this week

Around 400,000 Scottish households will automatically receive the annual lump sum which replaces Cold Weather Payments.

Daily Record

Coalition government lacked 'empathy' for welfare recipients, focused on cost savings, Serena Wilson tells Robodebt royal commission

A former department head described the office of then-social services minister Scott Morrison as having "limited interest in advice" between 2014 and 2018.

ABC News

New estimate U.S. could face default on debt by early June

A new estimate finds the U.S. could face an unprecedented default on its obligations as soon as early June if Congress does not act to lift the debt limit

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Why do politicians weaponize Medicare? Because it works

The Medicare wars are back, and almost no one in Washington is surprised.

Tribune News Service

Do you have to be a lawyer to work on the Hill? No, says Rep. Andrea Salinas - Roll Call

In the land of law degrees and pedigrees, the Oregon Democrat found her own path, working for liberal firebrand Pete Stark.

Roll Call

Parties push for worke protection

Political parties have voiced support for better benefits and protection for domestic workers who are excluded from the mandatory provisions of the Social Security Act.

Bangkok Post

Social Security and Medicare: Troubling math, tough politics

It seems no one wants to cut Social Security or Medicare benefits

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

New Adult Disability Payment online sample form could help people claim up to £156 each week

A successful claim for the devolved disability benefit could help with daily living and mobility costs.

Daily Record

Doyle McManus: Biden's 2024 presidential campaign harks back to past Democratic triumphs

WASHINGTON — When the 1996 presidential campaign approached, Bill Clinton faced an uphill struggle to win a second term. His biggest legislative proposal, a sweeping health care bill, had failed. His party had lost the House of Representatives to Republicans led by a fiery conservative, Newt Gingrich. Clinton's poll ratings…

Los Angeles Times

People on new disability payment may be eligible for huge range of benefit top-ups and discounts

The devolved benefit is expected to replace PIP for all claimants living in Scotland by the end of 2025.

Daily Record

Florida Sen. Rick Scott backtracks on GOP plan to sunset Social Security that Biden blasted at State of the Union speech

Republican Sen. Rick Scott Friday backtracked on his plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare that President Joe Biden called out during his fiery State of the Union speech.

Tribune News Service

GOP senator ditches plan to sunset Social Security and Medicare that Biden called out in State of the Union

Rick Scott’s updated policy proposal would exempt ‘Social Security, Medicare, national security, veterans benefits, and other essential services’ from his sunset provision

The Independent UK

Sen. Rick Scott alters policy plan causing heartburn for GOP

Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida has amended a plan to overhaul how the federal government works after Democrats repeatedly seized on it to accuse Republicans of looking to cut Medicare and Social Security

The Independent UK

Scott quietly edits plan to end Medicare

The Florida Republican changed his plan to exclude the programs after backlash from Democrats and his own party

Salon

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Axios

Rick Scott accuses Biden and McConnell of "gotcha politics" on Social Security

"To say otherwise is a disingenuous Democrat lie," Scott wrote about Biden.

The Conversation

Extra SNAP benefits are ending as US lawmakers resume battle over program that helps low-income Americans buy food

Millions of Americans will find it harder to put enough food on the table starting in March 2023, after a COVID-19 pandemic-era boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits comes to an end. Congress mandated this change in budget legislation it passed in late December 2022.

Reason

Social Security and Medicare Cuts Are Coming, Whether Politicians Do It or Not

As legislators refuse to act, benefits will be cut without any possibility of sheltering those seniors who are poor.

Reason

U.S. Will Add $18.8 Trillion in New Debt by 2033

Plus: Age verification for social media, a bill to ban cannabis "gatherings," and more...

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

WEKU

How seniors could lose in the Medicare political wars

Politicians are again pointing fingers over cutting Medicare. Any party accused of threatening the program tends to lose elections, but without a bipartisan agreement, seniors stand to lose the most.

Daily Record

New disability benefit can be paid to some people at a daily rate instead of every month

The daily rate of Adult Disability Payment is the equivalent to one-seventh of the weekly rate.

Reason

3 Reasons To Abolish Social Security Now!

The old-age entitlement is unsustainable, unfair, and unnecessary. Replace it with something that helps the needy of any age.

Tribune News Service

Commentary: Getting past the debt blame game

The barbs exchanged at the State of the Union address remind us of the ease with which each party feels it can blame the other for the worsening of federal indebtedness year after year, Congress after Congress, and presidential administration after administration. These routinized charges are not only counterproductive, they…

Los Angeles Times

Michael Hiltzik: Who's lying about the GOP's plans to cut Social Security? The GOP, of course

President Joe Biden has congressional Republicans all asquirm as he conducts a post-State of the Union speech national tour.

Daily Record

Parents urged to claim new child payment worth up to £627 each month to help cover extra costs

The devolved benefit is now supporting more than 54,700 children and young people across Scotland.

The Independent UK

Yellen warns of 'catastrophe' if debt limit not raised

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning that the U.S. faces “economic catastrophe” if Congress and the White House don’t take action to raise the federal debt limit

1 … 167 168 169 170

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

House of Representatives

Social Security Scotland

338 stories

Food and Drug Administration

Department of Social Services

49 stories

Scot

22 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.