Entitlements

Cassidy, Paulsen team up to help Medicare beneficiaries improve health by tackling obesity

With more than one in four seniors severely overweight, U.S Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and U.S. Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN)…

7 years ago

Tiberi, Portman fight to protect retirement benefits of older Americans

U.S. Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-OH) and U.S Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced legislation last week that would amend nondiscrimination rules…

7 years ago

House Ways and Means leaders praise DoJ announcement of guilty plea in disability scheme

Leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee hailed the Department of Justice announcement on Monday of a lawyer’s guilty…

7 years ago

Social Security payee program oversight explored in subcommittee hearing

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) said there is significant room to improve Social Security Administration (SSA) oversight of the 6.5…

7 years ago

Hill leads bicameral legislation to reform Social Security Disability Insurance and keep program solvent

U.S. Rep. French Hill (R-AR) led bicameral legislation that would modernize the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) classification of disability beneficiaries…

7 years ago

Renacci leads support for legislation to curb theft of Social Security numbers

U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci (R-OH) led the introduction of bipartisan legislation on Wednesday that would restrict Social Security Administration (SSA)…

7 years ago

Bill aimed at helping welfare recipients transition to work introduced by Renacci

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program would be improved upon by allowing more recipients to apply hours spent…

7 years ago

Bipartisan Capito bill aims to support community pharmacies serving Medicare beneficiaries

Medicare Part D sponsors and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) would be prohibited from retroactively reducing payments on accurate reimbursement claims…

7 years ago

Buchanan co-chairs hearing on preventing fraud by financial guardians of Social Security recipients

U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) co-chaired a hearing this week that focused on protecting Social Security recipients from fraud perpetrated…

7 years ago

Hatch, Walden point to new GAO report as evidence better Medicaid oversight needed

U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) highlighted the importance of better oversight after a new…

7 years ago

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