In a radio interview airing on Sunday, former U.S. Comptroller General and chief of the Government Accountability Office Dave Walker asserted that America’s national debt is over three times the official figure, which dramatically understates the government’s financial commitments.
Los Angeles County Beach Lifeguards and other public employees will receive the equivalent of a 10 percent pay raise over the next two years, while retirees on Social Security will receive zero increases.
Mike Huckabee is slamming the debt deal put forth by GOP leadership in Congress that takes $150 billion from the Social Security Trust Fund but doesn’t address the disability insurance program’s waste, fraud, and abuse.
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he would not support a debt ceiling increase that had cuts for Medicare and Social Security on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.” Sanders was asked a reportedly to be announced
GOP presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee is criticizing the GOP leadership in the Senate for negotiating a debt ceiling increase that would include cuts to Social Security and Medicare with the Obama Administration.
A 33-year-old convicted cocaine dealer collecting a monthly SSI handout used his state EBT welfare card to rent a bank safety-deposit box in which police have found $560,050 in cash – the latest in a series of busts in New England involving massive welfare fraud, often committed by drug dealers or recent immigrants.
GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee tells Breitbart News exclusively that he wanted to jump into the discussion about Social Security and Medicare during the second GOP primary debate hosted by CNN, because “it touches every American.”
Former Sen. Rick Santorum bet most of his chips on the immigration issue during the Wednesday night GOP debates, likely gambling he can win some of Donald Trump’s pro-American supporters over the next few weeks.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued that it “will be necessary” to raise the retirement age for people under 55, and he “would love” if people who “really don’t need it” opted out of Social Security on Monday’s broadcast
“All great change in America begins at the dinner table,” Mark Levin quotes President Reagan’s Farewell Speech in the final chapter of Plunder and Deceit.
in his elegant and moving new book, Plunder and Deceit, Mark Levin takes his message to the next generation.
When gun scholar John Lott met Barack Obama for the first time in 1996, he said Obama told him, “I don’t believe that people should be able to own guns.”
On July 18, Breitbart News reported on Obama’s secretive gun ban for Social Security beneficiaries who are unable to manage their own finances. On July 21, Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA-5th) put forth legislation to block that gun ban.
An Oregon resident who transitioned to a woman more than three decades ago continued collecting Social Security disability checks under her male identity, fraudulently raking in $250,000.
If people in the Social Security system are unable to manage their own affairs because of “marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease,” the Times reports, those people might find it difficult to purchase a firearm, if that information is reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
In a the latest backdoor gun control effort put forward by the White House, President Obama is pushing to ban gun possession for Social Security beneficiaries who are incapable of handling their own finances.
“Now, we’re often told that Medicare and Social Security are in crisis,” said Obama pointing out that it was used as an “excuse” by Republicans to cut spending. “But here’s the truth. Medicare and Social Security are not in crisis, nor have they kept us from cutting our deficits by two-thirds since I took office.”
Christopher Bunn is slated to be sentenced Tuesday for his October guilty plea to grand larceny in the third degree for collecting his father, James Bunn’s, pension payments of $7,542 and Social Security benefits of $17,790 after James Bunn’s death.
In an report released this week, the SSA’s Office of the Inspector General looked at a sample of 1,532 disability beneficiaries’ — on Disability Insurance (DI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) — pay status from October 2003 to February 2014 and found overpayments for 44.5 percent of their sample.
In a forthcoming report triggered by an Associated Press investigation, the top watchdog at the Social Security Administration found the agency paid $20.2 million in benefits to more than 130 suspected Nazi war criminals, SS guards, and others who may have participated in the Third Reich’s atrocities during World War II.
Complete with a website devoted to the agency’s 80th birthday, Colvin said the agency will be offering a menu of activities to mark the occasion, including encouraging people to offer their stories about how Social Security has benefited them and SSA employs to tell, “Why I Serve.”
According to new data compiled by researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth universities, the Social Security Administration’s actuarial projections over the last 15 years have been overly optimistic about the health of the program’s trust funds and missed the mark by over $1 trillion.
America is “engaged in a global competition” for investment and talent, Marco Rubio says, and is being held back by regulations that are crushing innovation, an excessive corporate tax rate, businesses that are not growing because of Obamacare, and energy policies that are blocking us from using our natural resources.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is betting his political future on a big speech on entitlement reform to restore buzz for a potential presidential campaign — even though his polling numbers have suffered in recent months.
In New Hampshire Tuesday, Governor Chris Christie will announce his plan for entitlement reform, vowing to shake up Social Security and Medicare to ensure it’s solvency for generations to come.
The Social Security Administration improperly paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits to sexual predators involuntarily confined in Special Commitment Centers, according to a new audit from the agency’s Inspector General.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that Social Security should be be made “secure” while increasing benefits in an interview broadcast on Tuesday’s “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC. Warren laid out a list of policy proposals that she wanted to see
A recent SSA Inspector General audit estimates that the agency has paid out some $17.1 million in benefits to at least 740 dead people. In one case, a Connecticut man has been convicted of defrauding the program for a quarter century.
Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz (R-TX) said he was an “emphatic advocate” of a balanced budget amendment, and expressed support for means testing Social Security and raising the retirement age on Monday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “I
Giant welfare states and torpid, hyper-regulated economies are fundamentally incompatible with open borders. Yet the U.S. government is letting illegals know they’re going to be able to collect money from the IRS through tax credits, up to $35,000 apiece, and that they’ll be able to collect Social Security benefits as early as 2017.
The Inspector General “confirmed that illegal aliens were using deceased number holders’ names and SSNs to work, but U.S. Attorneys in Arizona, Florida, and South Carolina declined prosecution.”