Showing posts with label benefits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label benefits. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Trump SSI Rule Change Targets Disabled Adults Who Live With Families — ProPublica
Now, President Donald Trump’s administration is poised to penalize people like Burton simply for living in the same home as their families, according to four federal officials, internal emails and a federal regulatory listing. The administration is working on a rule change that would deduct the value of a disabled adult’s bedroom from their SSI allotment, even if the family members they live with are poor enough to qualify for food stamps. This would mean slashing the benefits of some of the most low-income SSI recipients by up to a third — about $330 a month in Burton’s case — or ending their support altogether...
Saturday, April 11, 2026
Alarm as acting CDC director delays report showing Covid vaccine benefits
“This is definitely an escalation of this administration’s undermining of CDC science,” said Dr Fiona Havers, a former senior adviser on vaccine policy at the CDC. “The fact that they are now blocking this is extremely concerning.”…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/10/cdc-chief-covid-vaccine
Saturday, January 17, 2026
Trump’s USDA Is Hiding the Data on Food Stamp Cuts – Mother Jones
Millions of adults ages of 55 to 64 may now be locked out of the program if they're not able to work—and in a one-two punch of attacks on federal services, the USDA has terminated its annual food insecurity survey, making it impossible to know just how devastating an impact Trump's backdoor SNAP cuts will have on aging adults who are unable to get exemptions from their state...
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2026/01/trump-rollins-usda-snap-food-insecurity/
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Trump’s hate-filled rant ignores facts on immigrant crime and economic benefits
In the wake of the deadly Washington DC shooting, Trump claimed immigrants are 'destroying everything America stands for'. Here's what the data shows…
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Trump says he will ‘permanently pause’ migration from ‘third world countries’ after national guard shooting
In a social media post beginning with "a very happy Thanksgiving," sent after 11pm on Thursday, the US president said his administration would "end all federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens" and remove "anyone who is not a net asset to the United States".
It as not clear how the president would enact such a "pause" in migration. Previous bans issued by his administration have faced challenges in the courts and in Congress...
Friday, November 21, 2025
Trump admin backs off idea to force SNAP users to reapply - POLITICO
Officials will rely on state standards that are already in place to ensure eligibility, despite USDA chief Brooke Rollins' comments last week…
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/20/trump-rollins-snap-benefits-reapplication-00661001
Saturday, August 9, 2025
US air force denies early retirement for transgender service members
Move targets trans air force members with 15-18 years of service and forces them out of US military with no benefits…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/07/air-force-transgender-retirement-military
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Republicans want to give gig workers benefits. There’s a catch. | Vox
But unions strongly opposed these efforts. Labor groups have long fought against worker misclassification, where wrongly designating employees as contractors allows employers to sidestep payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws and other obligations. Unions view codifying portable benefits largely as a way to keep misclassifying workers and therefore cut them off from core workplace protections, including the right to unionize…
https://www.vox.com/policy/421899/gig-economy-uber-lyft-independent-contractor-gig-unions-freelance
Monday, April 7, 2025
Doge’s attack on social security causing ‘complete, utter chaos’, staff says
"It's just been a lot of craziness, a lot of foolishness. Until they get rid of Doge and the person in office right now, and the Republicans actually get a backbone and stand up for something for once in their lives, things are just going to be complete chaos. That's really the best word to describe SSA right now, just complete, utter chaos," the worker added. "They couldn't understand the coding, so everything they said SSA was doing illegally, they weren't. Common sense is something they lack. They don't know what they're doing."…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/musk-doge-social-security
Friday, March 28, 2025
Social Security Changes Could Make It Harder to Claim Benefits - Business Insider
"There has been zero communication on this since that press release," they said. They said a coworker was currently fielding phone calls from beneficiaries about the new change, with nearly every call related to recipients asking if they needed to come into a field office.
"People are calling and we have no more info than that press release," they said. "We look like idiots."…
Friday, March 7, 2025
Veterans cuts spark GOP backlash on Capitol Hill - POLITICO
"It's political malpractice not to consult Congress if that's what you intend to do," Graham said. "Maybe you've got a good reason to do it. I like Doug Collins — he's a great guy. But we don't need to be reading memos in the paper about 20 percent cut at the VA."…
Friday, February 21, 2025
Trump signs executive order targeting ‘benefits for illegal aliens’
The White House said the order seeks to end "all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens" but it was not clear which benefits will be targeted. People in the country illegally generally do not qualify except for emergency medical care. Children are entitled to a free K-12 public education regardless of immigration status under a 1982 supreme court ruling...
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Musk misreads Social Security data, millions of dead people not getting benefits, experts say - ABC News
Musk has implied 150-year-olds are getting checks but experts say he's mistaken...
Friday, January 31, 2025
To Pay for Trump Tax Cuts, House GOP Could Slash Benefits for Poor, Working Class — ProPublica
Other proposals would eliminate tax breaks for families with children.
Currently, parents can get a tax credit of up to $2,100 for child care expenses. The House Republican plan floats the elimination of that break. The cut is estimated to save $55 billion over a decade…
Another proposal in the list of options takes aim squarely at parents raising children on their own. The provision would eliminate the "head of household" filing status to collect almost $200 billion more in taxes over a decade from single parents and other adults caring for dependents on their own…
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Lawsuit challenges Biden-backed mental health benefits rule | Reuters
A new lawsuit by a trade group for employers seeks to void a Biden administration-backed federal rule intended to help ensure that the estimated 175 million Americans with private health insurance have access to affordable mental health services...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Trump Witnesses Have Received Financial Benefits From Trump Businesses, Campaign — ProPublica
Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime...
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Florida sticks by social studies standard teaching ‘benefit’ of slavery - POLITICO
Critics, including Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), urged the state to reconsider that language. And others criticized the state's phrasing on crucial lessons surrounding the 1920 Ocoee massacre and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which are labeled as violence perpetrated "against and by" African Americans...
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Larson Slams Republican Plan to Cut $1.5 Trillion in Social Security Benefits
Rep. John B. Larson (CT-01) spoke on the House floor to slam the Republican Study Committee plan to cut $1.5 trillion in Social Security benefits, and called for action to strengthen Social Security by making the wealthy pay their fair share.
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