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  • FULL: Man confesses to killing his parents during news interview, arrested in front of station

    09/26/2025 12:07:51 PM PDT · by Fitzy_888 · 15 replies
    CBS 6 News via YouTube ^ | 9/26/25 | CBS 6 News
    Video at link.
  • Social Security alert ignited probe of Albany couple presumed dead

    09/24/2025 12:09:55 PM PDT · by Fitzy_888 · 40 replies
    Albany Times Union ^ | 9/24/25 | Brendan J. Lyons, Steve Hughes
    (...) Kraus ran as a Democrat and declared he was running for president to dissolve the presidency. He proposed breaking the country up into four regions, "to break the control of the Deep State, British agents, Rhodes scholars, and the Jews," according to the Globe story. His campaign website was banjews.com, according to a short profile posted to the website of Temple University's Klein College of Media and Communication. (...) "They had just planted tomatoes," Calabrese recalled of the last time she saw them about eight years ago. "And then they were gone the next day." (...)
  • Transitioning Social Security

    09/19/2025 10:20:35 AM PDT · by CIB-173RDABN · 60 replies
    VANITY | SEPTEMBER 18, 2025 | CIB-173RDABN
    Transitioning Social Security: Lessons from the GI BillThe GI Bill provides a valuable example of how a large government benefit program can be restructured over time without breaking commitments to those already enrolled. When the GI Bill was updated, existing veterans retained their full benefits, while new recruits gradually began contributing toward their education benefits. This phased approach balanced fairness with fiscal responsibility.Why Change Social Security?Social Security, as it currently stands, faces significant financial challenges. With an aging population, longer life expectancies, and a shrinking ratio of workers to beneficiaries, the system’s trust fund is projected to be depleted within...
  • Social Security marks its 90th anniversary — here’s what could happen to future benefits

    08/21/2025 9:18:12 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 41 replies
    CNBC ^ | 08/21/2025 | Lori Konish
    Ninety years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, which created the program that now sends monthly benefit checks to millions of Americans, including retirees, disabled individuals and families. But by the time the program celebrates its centennial, benefits may not look the same as today’s Social Security payments. The reason: Social Security’s trust funds, which the program relies on to help pay benefits, are facing a looming shortfall. Starting in 2033 — two years before its 100th anniversary — the program may only be able to pay 77% of scheduled benefits for retirees, their families and...
  • Your Money and Your Life and How They May Come for Your Social Security

    08/21/2025 4:14:39 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 23 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 21 Aug, 2025 | M. Walter
    The specter of Obama still lurks in Washington. It’s awful how lefties fear-monger about Social Security, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in trouble. It is. We all know it is. Just not how the left portrays it. It’s just groaning under its own weight and sooner or later, likely sooner, the Hill is going to have to tackle it. Being the pedantic, unoriginal cowards that they are, they’ll likely look to the past for how to do it. What’s back there? Obama. Obama showed them how they might do it. Let’s take a walk down memory lane. Your money,...
  • Gateway Pundit Journalist and Lindell TV White House Correspondent Cara Castronuova Questions President Trump on Democrat Fearmongering Over Social Security and Explosive Allegations D.C. Police Are Falsifying Crime Data

    08/14/2025 7:36:12 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 1 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 14, 2025 | Cara Castronuova
    Gateway Pundit journalist and LindellTV White House Correspondent Cara Castronuova questioned President Trump on two major issues the corporate media refuses to confront — the Democrats’ ongoing misinformation campaign to terrify America’s seniors about their Social Security, and alarming allegations that D.C. police are “cooking the books” to conceal the true extent of violent crime in the nation’s capital. Thursday’s Oval Office event marked the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act. President Trump used the occasion to highlight what he calls the largest tax cut for seniors in American history, pointing to his administration’s elimination of taxes on most...
  • Trump Announces MASSIVE Social Security Cleanup — 275,000 Illegal Aliens Removed, Plus 12.4 Million Dead People Over 120 Years Wiped from Database

    08/14/2025 12:50:26 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 83 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 14, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft
    On the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act, President Donald J. Trump delivered a stirring proclamation in the Oval Office, promising to “Make Social Security Great Again.” Trump celebrated the passage of his signature legislation, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which includes a temporary senior tax deduction, effectively eliminating taxes on Social Security benefits for many recipients aged 65 and above from 2025 through 2028. As part of the administration’s push to “root out fraud, waste, and abuse,” Trump touted removing 275,000 illegal aliens from the Social Security system and clearing 12.4 million names listed as being over 120...
  • Social Security confidence hits 15-year low as younger Americans increasingly lose faith in system

    07/28/2025 7:30:29 AM PDT · by george76 · 49 replies
    FOX Business ^ | July 27, 2025 | Eric Revell
    Social Security faces automatic benefit cuts in less than a decade due to the projected insolvency of its trust fund ... Americans' overall confidence in Social Security dropped from 43% in 2020 to 36% in 2025, the lowest level since it fell to 35% in 2010. Younger Americans Younger Americans are even less confident in the program. Only 25% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 49 were confident in Social Security's future, whereas 48% of those 50 and older expressed confidence. ... retirees are relying more on Social Security than they were two decades ago, with the share...
  • Grim new Social Security outlook revealed as checks set to shrink by huge sums

    07/24/2025 2:05:51 PM PDT · by fruser1 · 165 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 7/24/2025 | Tilly Armstrong
    Social Security's retirement fund is set to run short in just seven years — which could end up slashing benefits for millions of Americans by thousands of dollars a year. According to latest projections, retirees could face automatic 24 percent benefit cuts as early as the end of 2032. Social Security relies on its trust fund to provide monthly benefit checks to around 70 million Americans. Once the reserves are exhausted, federal law requires that benefits be cut to match incoming revenues
  • EXCLUSIVE: GOP REP. HAL ROGERS' CAMPAIGN DONOR STANDS TO PROFIT FROM EXECUTIVE AMNESTY

    11/16/2014 6:50:16 PM PST · by lowbridge · 11 replies
    breitbart ^ | november 16, 2014 | matthew boyle
    A defense contractor and top campaign contributor to House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is in the running to get a contract to print millions of IDs and other government documents associated with the president’s planned executive amnesty, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. The contractor, General Dynamics, is on the list of “interested vendors” for a draft solicitation that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sent out to vendors in October. If the president goes through with an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and General Dynamics gets...
  • How the New Tax Law Will Actually Affect Your Tax Bill ($6,000 Senior Deductions, Roth, IRA) [17:31]

    07/08/2025 1:14:08 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 13 replies
    YouTube ^ | July 7, 2025 | The Retirement Nerds
    The Big Beautiful Bill is making waves, and it's bringing some important changes for retirees—especially when it comes to tax deductions. In this video, I'll break down exactly how this new legislation affects retirement savings, tax breaks, and the financial future of retirees by drawing out the various deductions in context with your income. If you're wondering how the Big Beautiful Bill could impact your taxes, pension plans, or deductions, this video is for you! How the New Tax Law Will Actually Affect Your Tax Bill ($6,000 Senior Deductions, Roth, IRA) | 17:31 The Retirement Nerds | 198K subscribers |...
  • Americans face vastly different retirement costs across states as Social Security cuts loom

    07/06/2025 2:08:11 PM PDT · by Libloather · 94 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 6/20/25 | Aislinn Murphy
    **SNIP** A study released this week by GOBankingRates calculated the amount of money that a "comfortable" retirement would require without income from Social Security factored in and the associated yearly expenses a retiree would face in each U.S. state. **SNIP** Alabama ($70,492 cost of living per year): $1,409,839 Alaska ($110,457 cost of living per year): $2,209,137 Arizona ($100,281 cost of living per year): $2,005,627 Arkansas ($67,502 cost of living per year): $1,350,045 California ($155,117 cost of living per year): $3,102,333 Colorado ($114,744 cost of living per year): $2,294,882 Connecticut ($105,428 cost of living per year): $2,108,563 Delaware ($94,392 cost of...
  • Response to Social Security’s Go-Broke Date

    07/05/2025 7:55:01 PM PDT · by delta7 · 40 replies
    Truth in Accounting ^ | 20 June 25 | Truth in accounting staff
    The recent analysis by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget regarding the 2025 Medicare Trustees’ Report highlights the looming challenges with Medicare and Social Security, but it only scratches the surface of the deeper fiscal issues our country faces. To understand the full financial reality, we must go beyond trust fund “solvency” and examine the actual commitments the federal government has made—and continues to make—without fully accounting for them. As the Congressional Budget Office has noted: “In the public debate, ‘solvency’ means keeping the trust funds from exhausting their balances and ensuring the ability of the funds to finance...
  • SocSec Email - "BBB eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security for 90% of beneficiaries..."

    07/04/2025 3:34:48 AM PDT · by zeestephen · 43 replies
    SocSec Email To zeestephen | 04 July 2025
    Just received this email from SocSec - This is NOT posted on the SocSec website - "BBB provides an enhanced deduction for taxpayers aged 65 and older..."
  • Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors

    07/04/2025 4:56:09 AM PDT · by vespa300 · 92 replies
    United State Government ^ | 7/03/2025 | Social Security Press Office
    The Social Security Administration (SSA) is celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that delivers long-awaited tax relief to millions of older Americans. The bill ensures that nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits, providing meaningful and immediate relief to seniors who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation's economy. “This is a historic step forward for America’s seniors,” said Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. “For nearly 90 years, Social Security has been a cornerstone of economic security for older Americans. By significantly...
  • Social Security July update: Here’s why checks could be smaller for millions of Americans [Reclaiming over payments]

    07/01/2025 1:00:00 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 36 replies
    Fast Company ^ | July 01, 2025 | Michael Grothaus
    The Social Security Administration is clawing back more in overpayments than it has in the past thanks to a new rule. Up to two million Americans could see their Social Security payments reduced by 50% in late July. The reduced payments are being implemented so that the Social Security Administration (SSA) can claw back billions in funds that it overpaid to some Americans over the past several years. Here’s what to know about the reduced Social Security payments and who could be affected. What’s happened? In April, the Social Security Administration announced that it would begin recouping approximately $72 billion...
  • Social Security, Medicare Funds to Be Depleted Earlier Than Expected: Trustees

    06/20/2025 9:57:38 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 45 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 06/20/25 | Naveen Athrapully
    Medicare and Social Security funds are now expected to drain out earlier than previous estimates, according to two new reports released on Wednesday. Social security is made up of two trust funds—old-age and survivors insurance (OASI) and disability insurance (DI). The two are combined for analyzing the overall status of social security funds, referred to as the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The 2025 OASDI trustees report, published on June 18, said the total cost of the social security program started exceeding its total income in 2021. Currently, the fund is projected to be depleted by 2034, a...
  • Personal Finance Social Security retirement trust fund may be depleted in less than a decade, new trustees’ report finds

    06/18/2025 12:04:51 PM PDT · by DFG · 64 replies
    CNBC ^ | 06/18/2025 | Lorie Konish
    The trust fund Social Security relies on to pay retirement benefits may be depleted in 2033, according to an annual report released by the Social Security Board of Trustees on Wednesday. That is unchanged from last year’s projections. At that time, 77% of those benefits will be payable, according to the report. Social Security’s combined trust funds — the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance trust funds — will have enough revenue to pay scheduled benefits and administrative costs until 2034, according to the report. That is one year earlier than projected last year. At that time, 81% of...
  • The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security

    06/16/2025 10:28:53 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 4 replies
    The New York Times ^ | June 16, 2025 | Alexandra BerzonNicholas Nehamas and Tara Siegel Bernard
    The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.Elon Musk stood before a giant American flag at a Wisconsin political rally in March and rolled out an eye-popping allegation of rampant fraud at the Social Security Administration. Scammers, he said, were making 40 percent of all calls to the agency’s customer service line. Social Security employees knew the billionaire’s claim had no basis in fact. After journalists followed up, staff members began drafting a response correcting the record. That’s...
  • Who Benefits: The One, Big, Beautiful Bill Gives Seniors New Tax Relief

    06/12/2025 1:00:11 PM PDT · by eastexsteve · 108 replies
    US House Of Representatives ^ | 05/28/2025 | House Ways And Means
    WASHINGTON, D.C. – The One, Big, Beautiful Bill fulfills President Trump’s promise to seniors and provides welcome tax relief after four years of inflation robbed their retirement under President Biden. Each senior will receive an additional bonus of $4,000 to the standard deduction, putting more money in the pocket of millions of low- and middle-income seniors.